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SUPPLIED Dangerous prisoner Uditha Punchihewa flees Hutt Hospital in a gown after escaping Corrections custody. (Video first published in 2019). In the aftermath a “full operational review” was carried out, which found the Corrections officer had not used an insert which helped cuffs fit people with smaller wrists, a spokesman said. “As a result of the operational review, additional training was provided to all relevant staff at Auckland Region Women’s Corrections Facility​ in the requirement of using and application of high security handcuffs,” the spokesman said. Staff are al...

Posted Laderrick Hopson By John Underwood / john@gulfcoastmedia.com MOBILE, Alabama — A Bay Minette man was found guilty of murder in a Mobile County courtroom Tuesday, April 20, for a 2018 shooting at a Prichard gas station. Laderrick Hopson, of Bay Minette was convicted on murder charges in the death 42-year-old Rodney Martin, who was shot six times at the Energize gas station on St. Stephens Road in Prichard's Whistler community on Feb. 8, 2018. Hopson was 24 at the time of the shooting. In a statement released Tuesday, Mobile County Assistant District Attorney C...

Usual travel procedures resume for deportees from Australia © Provided by Radio New Zealand Wiri Prison - Auckland Region Women's Corrections Facility With the opening of the trans-Tasman bubble, normal procedures will resume for those people deported from Australia. After a pause in deportations when Covid-19 hit, a dedicated managed isolation facility was set up in central Auckland for deportees. Managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) head Brigadier Jim Bliss said the Ramada Hotel in Federal Street was no longer in use. He said given the small number of rooms, it would not be suitable as...

Convicted murderer Venod Skantha died soon after learning his appeal had been dismissed.

The father of murdered teenager Amber-Rose Rush says the death of her killer "is hard to accept". Officials confirmed convicted murderer Venod Skantha died at the Otago Corrections Facility on Wednesday - the same day his appeal was dismissed. His death is not being treated as suspicious, Corrections said. Speaking to Stuff, Amber-Rose's father Shane said Skantha's death showed "a sign of guilt and remorse". "It is hard to accept that her killer won't have to pay the price for his crimes, but it is a relief to the family not to have to spend more of our lives being tortured with appeals and p...