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Editorial: Some policies aimed at quenching what politicians perceive to be a public appetite for fairness are recycled regularly even when they have been shown to be deeply flawed.

The sole survivor of an attack at an Auckland Returned and Services Association in which three people were murdered is poised to get a payout from the Corrections Department.

Prison bosses have admitted that they expected riots when they banned smoking in jails last year.

A woman visiting her partner in prison was trapped inside for more than three hours despite screaming out for guards and throwing a chair at a window to get their attention.

Dangerous repeat violent offenders and sex offenders could be monitored for the rest of their lives after release from prison, says minister Anne Tolley.

There were two wrongful releases and one wrongful imprisonment in the eight months since the Mt Eden Corrections Facility was handed over to private prison operators Serco, a Corrections Department report shows.

A new law that would allow prisons to punish inmates for drinking too much...