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DunedinFebruary 28

Prison to have response team

After almost 300 assaults at Otago Corrections Facility during the past five years, it has emerged a specialist threat response team will be established at the prison within months.
Prison to have response team
Prison to have response team
DunedinAugust 28

Gobsmacked by report: detective

A prison reform campaigner is calling for the police decision not to prosecute those charged with the care of remand prisoner Jai Davis to be reviewed after internal police emails revealed a ''significantly substandard'' report was used in the decision-making process.
DunedinMay 18

Aim to reduce reoffending

The Otago Corrections Facility at Milburn opened its gates to 27 employers this week to showcase inmates' training and qualifications. Shawn McAvinue went behind the prison walls and talked to a prisoner seeking a better life on his release.
Aim to reduce reoffending
Aim to reduce reoffending
DunedinJune 6

111 call after 'thump, thump' on roof

Police are unable to rule out an escaped prisoner might have been on the roof of a Milburn home yesterday.
111 call after 'thump, thump' on roof
111 call after 'thump, thump' on roof
DunedinMarch 7

Big rise in inmate treatment rate

Otago prisoners are among the rising number of inmates taking drug and alcohol treatment programmes.
Big rise in inmate treatment rate
Big rise in inmate treatment rate
DunedinAugust 7

Prisoners to be offered course in carpentry

Otago Corrections Facility hopes teaching its prisoners to use tools will make them less likely to turn to crime when they are released.
DunedinJuly 28

Prisoner costs not known

Corrections and police are in the dark about how much money they spend transporting Otago Corrections Facility prisoners to and from courts.
DunedinJune 14

Milburn prison-court AV link

Time and money will be saved when Otago Corrections Facility prisoners can be dealt with in the Dunedin District Court without leaving jail.
Milburn prison-court AV link
Milburn prison-court AV link
NewsMay 20

Drugs, weapons seized at prison

Illicit drugs, pornography, home brew, gang paraphernalia and weapons are among the 854 items of contraband discovered at the Otago Corrections Facility in the past three years.
Drugs, weapons seized at prison
Drugs, weapons seized at prison
The MixDecember 14

Positive change

Five years ago the Otago Corrections Facility opened near Milton. Kim Dungey looks at what goes on behind the wall and what impact the prison has had on its nearest neighbours.
DunedinDecember 14

Criminals in the midst

Selwyn Wilkinson was in full flight, telling tourists about his time inside the Otago Corrections Facility at Milburn when staff tapped on his van window.
South OtagoMarch 26

Health centre accredited

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.
DunedinFebruary 1

Otago inmate dies in hospital

An Otago Corrections Facility prisoner died in Dunedin Hospital on Wednesday night.
NewsJanuary 20

Milburn incident only pepper spray use

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.
South OtagoOctober 30

Otago jail rich source of tip-offs

Prisoners narking on each other at Otago Corrections Facility may be behind a spike in calls to an anonymous tip-off line.
DunedinOctober 9

Prisoner protest leads to lockdown

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.
South OtagoSeptember 2

Officers get more fitting attire

Corrections staff around the country said goodbye to the '70s by donning new blue uniforms this week.
Officers get more fitting attire
Officers get more fitting attire
DunedinJuly 30

Plan to smuggle drugs into prison foiled

Eavesdropping on prisoner phone calls has thwarted the prison drug drop plans of an Otago Corrections Facility inmate and his girlfriend.
NationalJune 7

Fewer prison positive drug tests

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.
Fewer prison positive drug tests
Fewer prison positive drug tests
NewsApril 29

'Ashamed' Marsh seen as low risk

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.
South OtagoApril 27

Second smokefree unit for prisoners

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.
South OtagoApril 1

CareNZ criticised over dismissal

The company which runs drug and alcohol programmes at the Otago Corrections Facility has been criticised for failing "dismally" to meet the provisions of the Employment Relations Act in its decision to fire a counsellor.
DunedinFebruary 14

Man dead at Milburn prison

A 30-year-old male inmate has died suddenly at the Otago Corrections Facility at Milburn, South Otago, has died.
NewsDecember 6

Flying doctor drops in at corrections facility

Irrepressible Bulls GP Dr Dave Baldwin likes being behind bars, and not just because it gives him a captive audience.
Flying doctor drops in at corrections facility
Flying doctor drops in at corrections facility
DunedinOctober 10

First inmate found dead at Milburn

The death of a prison inmate at the Otago Corrections Facility on Saturday morning has sparked a coronial inquiry.