Story: Prisons

More links and websites

• Department of Corrections

  The Department of Corrections manages New Zealand’s prisons.

• Facts and statistics

  This page on the Department of Corrections site links to statistics about prisons.

• Find a prison or corrections facility

  A map linking to information about New Zealand’s prisons.

• Howard League for Penal Reform

  The Howard League promotes debate on issues of crime, punishment, rehabilitation and alternatives to prison.

• Offender Volumes Report 2009

  Information about the offender population from the Department of Corrections, using data from 1980 to 2009.

• World Prison Brief

  International prison statistics, from the International Centre for Prison Studies.

More suggestions and sources

• Burnett, R. I. M. Hard labour, hard fare and a hard bed: New Zealand’s search for its own penal philosophy. Wellington: National Archives of New Zealand, 1995.

• Dalley, Bronwyn. ‘Prisons without men: the development of a separate women’s prison in New Zealand.’ New Zealand Journal of History 27, no. 1 (1993): 37–60.

• Newbold, Greg. The problem of prison: corrections reform in New Zealand since 1840. Wellington: Dunmore, 2007.

• Pratt, John, Punishment in a perfect society: the New Zealand penal system, 1840–1939. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1997.

• Taylor, Antony. The prison system and its effects. Rev ed. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2011.

• Webb, Patricia M. A history of custodial and related penalties in New Zealand. Wellington: Government Printer, 1982.