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Prison inmates in South Otago skill up on dairy farm 3 Mar, 2021 11:45 PM 2 minutes to read An Otago Corrections Facility inmate milks cows in Milburn. Photo / Shawn McAvinue Otago Daily Times By: Shawn McAvinue Outside the wire of a South Otago prison, inmates work on a dairy farm in hope of a brighter future. Otago Corrections Facility principal instructor and farm manager Tony Russell said Department of Corrections bought a dairy farm in Milburn and "plonked a prison in the middle of it". Th...

Prison guards threaten pepper spray moments after suicide attempt Guyon Espiner Warning: This article discusses suicide and could be distressing for some people. Prison guards threatened to pepper spray an inmate and then went on to put her in a headlock minutes after shed attempted suicide, documents released to RNZ show. © Provided by Radio New Zealand Mihi Bassett Ten days before Mihi Bassett attempted suicide she asked guards to give her poison but was assessed as not at...

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (WLS) -- One prison guard is dead and another has been critically hurt after they were both stabbed at the Indiana Department of Corrections Facility in Michigan City Saturday. Investigators said an inmate attacked the two correction officers in a common area of the facility around 2:40 p.m. Both were transported to St. Anthonys Hospital where one officer was pronounced dead. The second officer is in critical condition, according to officials. The inmate was identified as T...

IN prison guard killed, another critically injured in inmate stabbing attack: state police

One prison guard is dead and another has been critically hurt after they were both stabbed at the Indiana Department of Corrections Facility in Michigan City Saturday.

Warning: This story discusses violence, rape, depression and suicide. Auckland Womens Prison treated inmates in a "degrading," "cruel" and "inhumane" manner in a "concerted effort to break their spirit," according to a stinging ruling from a district court judge. Mihi Bassett was gassed in her cell, Manukau District Court Judge David McNaughton said. Photo: RNZ/Vinay Ranchhod Corrections broke its own rules and regulations multiple times in its treatment of Mihi Bassett and Karma Cripps, who w...

Press Release – Office of the Inspectorate The Office of the Inspectorate Te Tari Tirohia has released its inspection report for Auckland Region Women’s Corrections Facility. “The report highlights a number of challenges this site has faced over recent years with the volume of maximum security, high security and remand women prisoners,” says Chief Inspector Janis Adair. “Other challenges include needing to improve the outside exercise yards for the high security units.” Ms Adair sa...

An inspection of Auckland Women's prison has revealed inmates don't have easy access to sanitary items, bras, underwear and exercise.

She has sued to stop its use and the full hearing is expected at the High Court in Wellington early next year. She asked for a court order to stop Cell Buster’s use in the meantime but the judge refused, on the basis of the evidence she had at the moment. “The pepper spray causes an intensely painful burning sensation anywhere it touches, including the body, face, and, in particular, the eyes,” she said. Corrections’ own information says even the common type of pepper spray can caus...

RNZ has reported Cell Buster was hosed into cells to gas inmates to make them submit. In court on Monday, Ewen said it appeared the former Corrections Minister Judith Collins​ had the Cell Buster product in mind in 2009 when regulations were introduced that first allowed the use of that type of product. Ewen told Justice Rebecca Ellis​ that the interim declarations sought would stop Cell Buster being used until a full hearing of a Bill of Rights claim in 2021. If the interim declaration...