Sunday Star-Times, 11 October 2015 including interview with Fa'afete Taito, one of the key speakers at the Prison Forum 2015.
New York prison inmates beat Harvard Debating Team, 7 October 2015.
Unlocking Maori identity: keeping New Zealand’s indigenous people out of jail, by Toby Manhire for The Guardian online, 15 August 2015.
Dan Pacholke TED talk on how prisons can better serve inmates in the USA. The Deputy Secretary for the Washington State Department of Corrections, shares a different vision: of prisons that provide humane living conditions as well as opportunities for meaningful work and learning. Filmed March 2014.
The eighth annual report, 'A Mountain all can Climb', produced by The Salvation Army's Social Policy and Parliamentary Unit. Alan Johnson | Social Policy Analyst, February 2015.
'Government is Hiding the Truth behind the Serco Debate: The State-Operated Prisons are the Real Problem'. The View from the Inside by Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara, one of the 'Urewera Four', 25 July 2015.
'Returning Citizens: A quiet revolution in prisoner reintegration' Scottish Justice Matters 3(1): 32-33. Graham, H., Graham, S., & Field, J. (2015). This article offers a brief overview of a desistance-oriented approach to supporting community reintegration in the state of
Tasmania, Australia. While community service is typically discussed in terms of ‘payback’ as a form of punishment, it can be harnessed in creative ways to support prisoner reintegration and desistance processes.
Reintegration video links from around the world provide incredible stories of innovative reintegration, 2015.
PEP, Prisoner Entrepreneurship Program in USA. Executives working with inmates. Nationally, nearly 50% of ex-offenders return to prison within three years of release from prison. For Prison Entrepreneurship Program (PEP) grads, the official 2012 "return to prison" rate is less than 5%. A 3-minute video.
Pathway Trust interviews Barry Delahunt about his life and how he managed to make a fresh start. 21 October 2014. A video that gives huge insights into the life of an offender.
A story about the Mongrel Mob in Dunedin.
Why Norway's Prison System is so Successful, Business Insider Australia, 12 December 2014.
Our justice system is built on forgiveness. Tahu Potiki, The Press, stuff.co.nz, 9 December 2014.
Locked Up Warriors. Why does NZ have one of the highest rates of incarceration in the developed world? Aljazeera, 8 November 2013.
Murray Wilson, 52, who spent much of his 20s in prison, has just graduated with a Masters in Criminology from Victoria University.
Interview of Corrections Minister, Peseta S_am Lotu-Iiga, in May 2015, by Lisa Owen.
Department of Corrections' June 2015 newsletter
Helping Prisoners to come out of the mist - the new prison at Wiri focuses on rehabilitation and resettlement.
Looking beneath surface key to redirecting life of crime. Jarrod Gilbert, 4 June 2015
Constructing and Reconstructing Criminality in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Dominant Media Discourses on Crime and Criminality and their Impact on Offenders’ Identities and Rehabilitation Efforts. Thesis, Master of Management Studies (MMS), Murray Riches. Published University of Waikato, 2014.
Corrections Statement of Intent 1/7/14 - 30/6/18.
Prisoners from Ngawha build Habitat for Humanity home for Northland family, June 2015.
The most reliable international comparisons are found at the website of the International Centre for Prison Studies.
Dept of Corrections quarterly prison statistics.
Report on the visit of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment to New Zealand from 29 April to 8 May 2013. Dated 25 August 2014.