In this section
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Information brochures
- Thank you for volunteering with Corrections
- Reducing re-offending - How you can get involved
- Release to Work - a guide for employers
- Right people, right now
- Construction industry factsheet
- Farming and horticulture factsheet
- Manufacturing, technology and engineering factsheet
- Service industries
- Crime-free Through Real Work brochure
- Our Approach to Reintegration brochure
- Pepper Spray
- Electronic monitoring: Important information for defendants
- Electronic monitoring: Important information for employers
- Electronic monitoring: Important information for family, whānau and occupants
- Electronic monitoring: Important information for offenders
- Electronic monitoring: Important information for prisoners
- About Us brochure
- Community Work brochure
- Corrections and Victims of Crime brochure
- Managing Offender Health brochure
- When Someone Goes to Prison brochure
- Young People Who Offend brochure
- Our Approach to Rehabilitation brochure
- Mothers with Babies Unit
- Your pathway to change - living offence free
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Inquiries & Reviews
- Waikeria Prison incident inquiries
- Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture – Inspection Reports
- Summary of the Operational Review into a Breach of Security at a Christchurch Men’s Prison Unit
- Report of the Inquiry into the prisoner riot at Spring Hill Corrections Facility in 2013
- Summary of the Corrections Inspectorate case review of the management of a prisoner at Auckland Prison and the use of tie-down beds
- Reports connected with Fight Club
- Review of Gang Connections of External Providers
- Summary of the review of the failure to return from temporary release of prisoner Phillip Smith
- Summary of multi-agency review of Phillip Traynor (aka Phillip Smith) incident
- 10 point plan to respond to the illegal departure of Phillip Smith
- Inquiry into the prisoner riot at Spring Hill
- Official Information Act
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Policy and legislation
- Prison Operations Manual
- Custodial Practice Manual (CPM)
- RIS: Improving rehabilitation, reintegration and safety outcomes in the Corrections system
- Cabinet papers and related material
- Regulatory Impact Analysis: Removing prison workers from the COVID-19 Public Health Response Vaccinations Order 2021
- Regulatory Impact Statement: Use of pepper spray in custodial settings
- Regulatory Impact Assessment Strengthening Powers to Withhold Mail
- Regulatory Impact Analysis Corrections Amendment Bill 2018
- Regulatory Impact Statement: Corrections Amendment Bill 2018
- Regulatory Impact Statement: Corrections Amendment Regulations 2017 (2)
- Regulatory Impact Statement: Corrections Amendment Regulations 2017
- Parole (Alcohol and Drug Testing of Offenders and Returning Offenders) Rules 2017
- Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) (Alcohol and Drug Testing) Rules 2017
- Sentencing (Alcohol and Drug Testing of Offenders) Rules 2017
- Community Probation Practice Centre
- Victims Code
- Child Protection Policy
- Human rights in NZ prisons
- Electronic Monitoring of Offenders Legislation Bill
- Prisons designated for use of prisoner placement system
- Chief Executive's guidelines on the use of coercive powers under the Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Act
- Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Act
- Parole Extended Supervision Orders Amendment Bill
- Drug and Alcohol Testing of Community-based Offenders and Bailees Legislation Bill
- Bail Act
- Corrections Act 2004
- Corrections Amendment Act
- Corrections Regulations
- Overview of key legislation
- Parole Act
- Sentencing Act
- Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Bill
- Administration of Community Sentences and Orders Bill 2011
- Use of Court Cells for Over-flow Prisoners
- Instrument of Designation
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Research
- Practice: The New Zealand Corrections Journal
- Tai Aroha Evaluation 2015
- Comorbid substance use disorders and mental health disorders among New Zealand prisoners
- Women's Experiences of Re-offending and Rehabilitation
- Topic Series Reports
- Formative Evaluation of the Mothers with Babies Units
- What Works for Maori
- Community Based Domestic Violence 2012
- Tai Aroha 2012
- Breaking the Cycle of Crime
- Youth Therapeutic Programmes
- Prisoner double-bunking: Perceptions and impacts (2012)
- Community Sentence Patterns in New Zealand
- Benchmarking Study of Home Detention Programs in Australia and New Zealand
- About Time: Turning people away from a life of crime and reducing re-offending
- Reconviction Rates of Sex Offenders: Five year follow-up study
- Risk assessment of recidivism of violent sexual female offenders
- What works now
- Reconviction Patterns of offenders managed in the community: A 60-months follow-up analysis
- Reconviction patterns of released prisoners: A 48-months follow-up analysis
- Reconviction patterns of released prisoners: A 60-months follow-up analysis
- Maori Offenders and Home Detention: Analysis of a One-Year Cohort
- Reconviction patterns of offenders managed in the community: A 48-months follow-up analysis
- Over-representation of Maori in the criminal justice system
- Reconviction Patterns of Released Prisoners: A 36-months Follow-up Analysis
- And there was light...
- Best use of Psychological Service treatment resources
- Census of Prison Inmates and Home Detainees
- Child Sex Offender Treatment
- Criminogenic Needs Inventory (CNI)
- Inmate Family Relocation Study
- National Study of Psychiatric Morbidity in NZ Prisons
- New Zealand high-risk offenders
- Prison Youth Vulnerability Scale
- Risk of Reconviction
- Storm Warning
- Te Whakakotahitanga - An Evaluation of the Te Piriti Special Treatment Programme
- The Driving Offender Treatment Scale
- The Effectiveness of Correctional Treatment
- The Utility of the Psychopathy Checklist - Screening Version for Predicting Serious Violent Recidivism in a New Zealand Offender Sample
- When the Bough Breaks
- A Risk-Need Profile Using Four Measures for Youth Offenders Incarcerated in Young Offender Units
- Māori Focus Units and Māori Therapeutic
- Statistics
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Strategic reports
- Disability Action Plan 2023 – 2027
- Annual Reports
- Suicide Prevention and Postvention Action Plan 2022-2025
- Chief Executive's Expense Disclosure Reports
- Statements of Intent
- Our Health Service Story
- Gender pay gap action plan
- Select Committees
- Wāhine: E Rere Ana Ki te Pae Hou Women's Strategy 2021 - 2025
- Alcohol and Other Drug Strategy 2021-2026
- Corrections’ Strategic Plans
- Everyone Safe Every Day - Year Three
- Volunteer Strategy
- Briefing to the Incoming Minister
- Accord between The Kiingitanga and Corrections
- Investing in better mental health for offenders
- Performance Improvement Framework - Follow-up Review of Department of Corrections
Resources
Corrections’ strategic reports, publications, research, statistics and responses to Official Information Act (OIA) requests.
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Information brochures
Brochures and factsheets published by Corrections.
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Inquiries & Reviews
Reports on inquiries and reviews into specific incidents.
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Official Information Act
Selected responses to queries under the Official Information Act.
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Policy and legislation
Key Corrections' policies including the Prison Operations Manual, along with relevant legislation and regulatory impact statements.
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Research
Research on topics related to offenders, prisons, programmes and reducing re-offending.
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Statistics
Corrections statistics including Corrections volumes report and quarterly statistics for prison and community sentences and orders.
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Strategic reports
Corporate documents and strategic reports including Corrections' annual reports, strategic plans.
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