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Invercargill Prison, in Invercargill, holds about 165 prisoners. Built in 1910, the prison operated as a borstal until 1981. In 2012 a rehabilitation programme was introduced at Invercargill Prison. [119] In May 2021, Invercargill Prison and Invercargill City Libraries launched a programme to boost literacy among prisoners.
The number of sentenced prisoners has varied over recent years, reaching a high of 9,333 in 2006 and falling to 7,662 in 2014. Over half of those sentenced to prison in 2014 were sentenced to terms of less than 12 months. [80] As of 2016, New Zealand's prison population rate was 202 per 100,000 people which was the 69th highest in the world. [81]
Auckland Region Women's Corrections Facility (ARWCF) is a women's prison in the Wiri suburb of South Auckland, New Zealand. Also in the vicinity are the Wiri Mens Corrections Facility and Korowai Manaaki Youth Justice Facility. It opened in 2006 and is the first purpose-built women's prison in New Zealand; there are two older women's prisons.
First person to be judicially executed in New Zealand (although not the first person sentenced to death). Convicted of murdering the family for whom he was working as a farm-hand. 2: Joseph Burns: 17 Jun 1848, Auckland: Convicted of murdering a naval officer Lt Snow and his family at Devonport Naval Base in order to rob them. 3: Maroro: 19 Apr ...
In the United States and Canada, intermittent confinement or weekend jail is an alternative sentence in which a defendant is required to report to a correctional facility for multiple short periods of incarceration, usually during the weekend. This type of sentence allows a defendant to maintain employment and family relationships while ...
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A California woman, subjected to an hours-long cavity search while visiting her husband in prison, has won a $5.6million settlement, her attorneys said Monday.. Christina Cardenas was stripped, X ...
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