He also claimed despite efforts to stop cell phones getting into prisons and to block phone coverage, prisoners are still accessing and using them.
Taylor also said gangs have control of some wings of New Zealand prisons, not Corrections, and when criminals with no gang links enter prison they are forced to join one for their own safety.
And towards the end of the interview, he revealed he has a sneaking admiration for Corrections Minister Judith Collins.
"She has got a bit of go in her," he said.
Taylor said if he was released from prison he would go straight.
"We have all done good, all done bad," Taylor said, "And I have done a helluva lot more good than bad.
"It is not too late for me ... I can break away ... I like helping people."