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Escaped inmate may have left Paremoremo area

Police believe a prisoner who broke out of the high security Auckland Prison at Paremoremo may have now made it out of the area.

Jail-breaker on the run before

Police are still hunting for an escaped prisoner who was years earlier on the run for 41 days, in which time he robbed a security van.

Search continues for missing prisoner

Up to 20 police, some of them armed, are searching the area around Auckland Prison at Paremoremo after an inmate cut his way through a double perimeter fence and escaped today.

Prisoner still on the run, investigation launched

The Corrections Department is investigating how an inmate escaped Auckland Prison by breaking through a perimeter fence in the jail workshop.

Judge sends 'weak and cowardly' parents to prison over baby's death

"It was a weak and cowardly strategy and it failed," the judge said.

P-addicted pair jailed for stealing vans to fund habit

Jail cuts for Christmas

Jailed MP appeals bribery conviction

Former Govt minister Taito Phillip Field is appealing against his conviction and sentence for bribery and corruption.

Cell suicide brings call for legal help line

A coroner is calling for a national legal help phone line for prisoners in police custody after a lawyer could not be found for a man who later hanged himself.