What Corrections does - Change Lives, Shape Futures
The Department of corrections is responsible for the management of New Zealand's corrections system.
Public Safety
We do this by:
Operating prison facilities in accordance with the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners. We manage prisoners safely and humanely, meeting their legitimate needs.
We do this by:
Making sure prisoners and community-based offenders comply with the sentences and orders imposed by the courts and the New Zealand Parole Board.
We do this by:
Providing offenders with rehabilitation programmes, education and job training that will turn their lives around and break the cycle of re-offending.
Underlying these core responsibilities is a commitment to the people of New Zealand – to protect them from those who could harm them.
Whether it is monitoring offenders serving sentences in the community, putting in place support plans for those at risk of re-offending, upgrading our facilities to ensure their security or providing information to the courts and Parole Board to assist with their decision making, everything Corrections does is centred on keeping communities safe.
Public safety is our bottom line, and the best contribution we can make is to ensure that people who come into the Corrections system do not re-offend. That is why reducing re-offending is our ultimate goal, and is at the heart of our strategic plan. We work actively with offenders to provide rehabilitation, education and employment training, which play a positive role in helping offenders to turn their lives around.
