Serco

A private prison operator has been paid millions for reoffending rates that are incredibly low, even by international standards.

Serco has been criticised for using interns to write psychological reports for the Parole Board.

Prison staff failed to search an inmate's cell and neglected to clean an in-cell camera which had been obscured for 15 days before he died.

A former Mt Eden inmate is suing the private prison operator for what he says is gross negligence.

A former inmate who is suing Corrections has made public a video of his brutal prison assault. Video

The case of a prisoner smashed in the head with a pool ball has been lodged with the Human Rights Review Tribunal.

Serco New Zealand lost $10.5 million last year as the consequences of losing its Mt Eden Prison contract continued to bite.

Giving high marks to private prison operator Serco shortly after a near-fatal attack on an inmate in Mt Eden jail was against Corrections own rules.

Guards sat for 20 minutes filing paperwork and eating sandwiches while a prison inmate lay near death in his cell after an assault, a prison inspector's report says.

Serco will end its management of Mt Eden Prison today after four years riddled with allegations of fight clubs, poor supervision and understaffing.

A former inmate of the Serco-run Mt Eden Prison is seeking millions of dollars in compensation from the Corrections Department.

Corrections sat on a finding that there were fight clubs at Mt Eden prison for a year, partly because the National Commissioner's doubted he could make Serco do anything about it, a report shows.

The first report on the performance of the country's prisons released in more than a year puts the only privately-run jail in a group at the bottom of the rankings.

The Corrections Department is defending its prison performance measures, even though they ranked Mt Eden as exceptional when the jail was unsafe for inmates and staff.