
Reissue: Surging violence, record numbers: What’s driving the prison system 'crisis'
From The Front Page
Published 12/17/2025

From The Front Page
Published 12/17/2025
The Corrections Association says New Zealand’s prisons are in ‘crisis’. Last year saw record-breaking numbers of assaults on staff, almost double what they were just seven years ago. There were also more than 15-hundred prisoner-on-prisoner attacks - the highest annual figure on…