Otago Corrections Facility

The health centre at Milburn's prison has joined other primary health care practices in the country in meeting the standards set for New Zealand general practice.

An Otago Corrections Facility prisoner died in Dunedin Hospital on Wednesday night.

A national trial testing the use of pepper spray in prisons has ended, with the spray used once last year, at the Otago Corrections Facility at Milburn to subdue an out-of-control prisoner.

Prisoners narking on each other at Otago Corrections Facility may be behind a spike in calls to an anonymous tip-off line.

A power outage which cut television and heating for some prisoners sparked a seven-hour protest and resulted in the Otago Corrections Facility being locked down on Saturday.

Corrections staff around the country said goodbye to the '70s by donning new blue uniforms this week.

Eavesdropping on prisoner phone calls has thwarted the prison drug drop plans of an Otago Corrections Facility inmate and his girlfriend.

Drugs are being shut out of the country's prisons, with prisoners recording fewer positive drug tests as the Department of Corrections clamps down on contraband.

Convicted double murderer Gresham Marsh is haunted by the fact he cannot make amends for his crimes, but would like to meet the family of his victims to show he is a changed man, an Otago contact says.

Voluntary smokefree units at Otago Corrections Facility (OCF) and nicotine replacements are helping prisoners break the habit before a smokefree ban is introduced later this year.