Pacific Regional Heads of Prisons Infrastructure and Technology

1. Pacific Regional Heads of PrisonsInfrastructure and Technology Brisbane, Australia 2005

2. VIDEO • Video clip – approx four minutes in duration

3. Corrections in context • In this environment: • The Department of Corrections manages about 19,000 non-custodial sentences and orders, and about 7,000 prisoners • The Department also provides policy advice to the Minister of Corrections, support services to the New Zealand Parole Board, and information to the judiciary • The Department employs about 5,000 staff based at a number of sites throughout the country, and is responsible for an annual budget of around six hundred million dollars ($NZ)

5. Justice sector • Corrections • Justice • NZ Police • Child Youth and Family • Health

6. Justice sector outcomes • Two main outcomes: • safer communities • a fairer, more credible more effective justice system

7. Corrections outcomes Safer communities Reduce re-offending Protect the public

8. Protecting the public • Providing a safe environment for staff and the public • Managing offenders in a safe, secure and humane manner • Ensuring appropriate compliance with, and administration of, sentences and orders • Providing information to the judiciary to inform the sentencing process and release conditions • Supporting reparation to the community

9. Reducing Re-offending • Providing targeted rehabilitative and reintegrative initiatives to change offending behaviour by: • a risk and needs assessment for offenders to determine how best to address offending behaviour • programmes to encourage offenders to address their offending behaviour and their offence-related needs • education, training and work experience for offenders • assistance with accessing community services so that offenders can positively participate in, and be successfully integrated back into, society

10. Five year plan based on four themes companion strategies Maori strategic plan Pacific strategy supporting strategies human resources communications facilities and infrastructure information technology Strategic Business Plan

11. Infrastructure strategy • Supports Department’s outcomes and provides the framework to design, build and maintain facilities • Considerations for developing strategy: • demographic trends: • total demand trends • seriousness of offending, ethnicity, gender, etc. • regulations • staffing and local support • regional prison policy

12. Infrastructure design • Considerations: • safe, secure and humane containment • supports efficient and effective management of offenders • facilitate rehabilitation and reintegration • specialist/focus units • cultural, drugs and alcohol, violence, sexual offending, faith-based and youth • environmental (tropical versus temperate) • affordability and maintainability

13. Facilities Standards • The Facilities Standards are designed to: • ensure compliance with identified best practice (operational and design) • provide national consistency through design standards • provide detailed specifications • inform designers

14. Applying the Standards • 2100+ new beds by 2008 – based on new facilities standards • four new regional prisons: • Northland - 350 beds • South Auckland Womens - 286 beds • Waikato - 650 beds • Otago - 330 beds • 493 additional beds in existing prisons

15. Our new prisons • New open style “normalised” environment: • promotes rehabilitation and reintegration • integrate cultural aspects – e.g. Fale, Pua Wananga • allows unescorted movements • encourages pro-social behaviour and self responsibility • increased level of trust – decreased level of staff supervision

16. Northland (Ngawha)

17. Sth. Auckland Women’s

18. Waikato (Spring Hill)

19. Otago

20. Challenges • New prison style challenge traditional notions of security and prisoner management because: • less restrictive, more open internal environment • use of landscaping rather than internal barriers • mixing of security levels • unescorted internal movements