New Zealand. Department of Corrections

Date: 17 Jun 1997

By: Costar, Dorothy Christina, 1942-; Hutching, Megan Alannah, 1957-; New Zealand. Department of Corrections

Reference: OHColl-0549/1

Description: Dorothy Christina Costar born Thames. Outlines family background - father, a miner, later worked for A & G Price, Thames. Mother was dental receptionist for [Mr] Shaw, the dentist, Thames. Describes: Thames which had a population of five and a half thousand people; schools - Thames South and Thames Central, with reference to Miss Baker; school uniforms; Church of Christ Sunday School and picnics in the Kauaeranga Valley. Refers to six o clock closing and recalls a fatal accident when friend was killed and comments on the $50 fine driver received. Mentions different attitude towards drinking and driving in those days. Recalls various jobs - Jamesfield clothing factory and Hutton the jewellers before joining the WRNZAF at Wigram, 1961 ending up as Flight Sergeant in charge of the joint services telephone exchange in Wellington. Recalls amalgamation of services, with reference to Ministry of Defence. Backgrounds circumstances leading to career with Prison Service and refers to Rev Hoddinutt. Commenced at Mt Eden prison October 1966 as assistant matron. Refers to Miss Molloy (Molly), chief matron who wore a veil. Describes process of training, with reference to examination subjects, psychology, penology, criminology and Acts and Regulations. Refers to the old Raven's Matrice test - psychological test. Discusses Arohata, the women's borstal: its daily routine; uniforms; punishment, with reference to deprivation of privacy; recreation; transportation of prisoners between Arohata and Dunedin women's prison. Talks about the integration of Mt Eden Prison and preparation for women prisoners and choosing staff. Discusses changes to the system and notes there is now more emphasis on rehabilitation - people have case management and are assessed to see what their needs are. Mentions the introduction of computers and health and safety courses, with reference to AIT [Auckland Institute of Technology]. Refers to Alternatives to Violence Programme, started by Quakers (Society of Friends) and mentions PARS (Prisoners' Aid & Rehabilitation Society). Other topics discussed include: split of the Justice Department into Corrections and Courts, with reference to Penal Division; numbers of Maori and Pacific Island offenders; glue sniffing; drug addiction; policy for mothers and children; change in hierarchical structure; child abuse, with reference to Women's Refuge; and the rebuilding of Mt Eden which commenced 1986, with reference to the Mason Clinic. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Venue - Mt Eden Prison Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008078-008080 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2235.

Date: 2002

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-689-014/028

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Topics include High Telcom fees for rural phone connections Sky Casino reneging on a pledge to Queenstown community Funding ACC from petrol taxation MP Winston Peter's anti-Asian immigration stance Language testing for immigrants Supertanker accidents The performance of Bill English, Leader of the National Party Princess Anne's conviction for not keeping proper control of her dog Drug taking in prisons Windy days in Auckland preventing America's Cup racing and the spraying for the painted apple moth Qantas buying into Air New Zealand The proposal to build a new prison at Milburn Fonterra redundancies Quantity: 15 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 horizontal photocopies

Date: [2002-2003]

From: Mustor, Michael Collin William, 1972- : Papers relating to his term of imprisonment

Reference: MS-Papers-7661-13

Description: Various documents and papers relating to Mustor's convictions, complaints, official letters, shopping lists etc Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [2001-2002]

From: Mustor, Michael Collin William, 1972- : Papers relating to his term of imprisonment

Reference: MS-Papers-7661-14

Description: Mostly legal file of various documents and papers relating to Mustor's complaints about being assaulted, Glen Kilgour, the Department of Corrections etc Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 7 Feb 1996

By: New Zealand. Department of Corrections; Hutching, Megan Alannah, 1957-; Love, Henry George Isac, 1933-

Reference: OHColl-0405-01

Description: Harry Love was born in Lower Hutt. Outlines educational background. On leaving school got job with Courts Division, Department of Justice. Discusses this job. Gives reasons for decision to attend University and choosing psychology. Mentions Compulsory Military Training. Refers to Max Riske, a teacher at Wellington Technical Institute. Gives reason for taking Maori to finish degree and refers to Mick Jones, examiner for Maori language component of course. Describes how interest in Taha Maori has widened. Mentions Social Science Cadet Bursary and terms of bursary. Talks about appointment as boys' welfare officer in Lower Hutt and Wellington and recalls reasons for leaving. Describes differences in approach to psychology between boss, Harold Bernhardt and university lecturer, ArthurZ. (Arthur). Describes self as Decision theorist and explains why. Describes Semantic Differential Test. While studying, worked at Porirua Psychiatric Hospital and compares methods of treating patients with Sunnyside Hospital. Became Regional Senior Psychologist for Department of Justice in 1971. Refers to work as prison psycholgist. Mentions Jim Caughley and David Bateup. Briefly mentions Arohata Borstal. Recalls appointment as Deputy Director, Psychological Services. Speculates why Centre for Psychological Studies never really happened. Mentions 1979 audit management of Penal, Courts and Probation divisions of Department. Mentions appointment of new Secretary for Justice, John Robertson. Refers to publication of `The Effectiveness of Correctional Treatment' by Lipton. Refers to Jim Callaghan, Paul Gendreau and Graham Simpson. Describes the effect of the State Sector Act. Mentions influence of Professor Bill Marshall in New Zealand regarding sex offending and his involvement in the establishment of sex offender's unit at Rolleston Prison. Recalls `battery of tests' administered by psychologists in 1950s. Contrasts Psychodynamic and Cognitive methods of psychology. Mentions influence of Transactional analysis - meditation. Describes Anger Management Programme. Mentions sex ratio in psychological services, its effect on retention of staff and reasons why more women are appointed as psychologists. Describes findings of review of policy of employing private practitioners. Describes relations with Penal and Probation staff. Mentions establishment of postgraduate bursaries for Maori students in psychology. Refers to Holistic Psychology Movement. Mentions David Bateup, Harry Cohen and Fred Masters. Sponsored by - Department of Corrections Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Recorded by - Megan Hutching Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006509 to OHC-006512 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3.45 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1517. Search dates: 1996

Date: 6 March2007

From: Winter, Mark, 1958-: Original cartoons by Chicane (Mark Winter), from 2007-2018

By: Winter, Mark, 1958-; Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: A-478-002

Description: Shows the barred window of a prison cell. Someone inside the cell is saying "We're inmate". Refers to the news story that a convicted rapist had fathered a child while in prison. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 6.3.07 [in ink] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink and whiteout on paper, 210 x 300mm

Date: 1990-2019

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to prisons, prisoners, prison conditions, discipline and operation]

By: Archives New Zealand; Auckland Committee on Racism and Discrimination; New Zealand. Department of Corrections; New Zealand. Department of Justice. Parole Board; New Zealand. Office of the Ombudsmen; Prison Chaplaincy Service of Aotearoa New Zealand; Prison Fellowship of New Zealand

Reference: Eph-A-PRISON-1900/2019

Description: Includes: ca 1945: He hasn't a Belsen horror camp, but he does his best with Mount Eden Prison. Hon H G R Mason ... Read the facts of the Harold McAuley case overleaf [Leaflet, damaged. ca 1945] 1970s: Auckland Committee on Racism and Discrimination. No more child remands to adult prisons!!! [1970s] 1986: Prison Fellowship of New Zealand. "Prisoner of Hope" Library [1986] Prison Fellowship of New Zealand. "Jesus said: For I was hungry ..." [1986] 1989: Guest of honour Mr Chuck Colson, author of "Born again" and "Life sentence" (and Chairman of Prison Fellowship USA). Programme / Order of service. 1992: Te Roopu Horouta o Arohata. "Stars behind the Bars" tour 1992. Programme; and itinerary 1994: The other side; information for partners of prisoners in the South Waikato area [1994] 1995: Archives New Zealand. "At Her Majesty's pleasure"; the early development of the New Zealand penal system [1995] (2 copies; plus flier for the launch of National Archives occasional monograph by R I M Burnett "Hard labour, hard fare and a hard bed". 1997: Te Rakau Hua o te Wao Tapu Trust :Te Rakau Hua o te Wao Tapu presents "A Christmas wish"; a gift from the women at Arohata Prison, 1997. Stories, song and dance "Into the opening heart". [1997] (2 copies) 2000: Books in Prison Trust. [Bookmark. 2000] New Zealand Prisoners' Aid and Rehabilitation Society (Inc.). How PARS can help [2000] 2001: Office of the Ombudsmen. The Ombudsmen and prison inmates. March 2001 (2 copies) 2010: Prison Chaplaincy Service of Aotearoa NZ. Prison chaplaincy [2010] 2012: Wellington Prison self-guided tour map and important safety and security instructions [2012]. (2 copies) 2015: New Zealand. Department of Corrections. RR 25%; reducing re-offending. Strategy 2014-2017, year two [2015]. Booklet New Zealand Parole Board. Some useful suggestions for registered victims [2015]. Folded card (2 copies) 2016: No Pride in Prisons. Decolonisation and prisons. Te Matakite o Aotearoa - the Maori Land march. 17 Tory St, 14 May 2016. Flier Related material may be held at subject locations: JUSTICE, LAW, POLICE Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 29 pieces of ephemera. Physical Description: Sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 2021

From: Ephemera donated to and collected by the Alexander Turnbull Library from 2020

By: Zonta International. Zonta Club of Wellington

Reference: Eph-A-JULY-AUGUST-2021/1

Description: Comprises ephemera relating to a Matariki Concert held at Arohata Women's Prison in Tawa, Wellington in 2021. Also includes two New Zealand Department of Corrections advertising fliers. 'Arohata Inside Out, in association in Zonta Mana Matariki Concert' events programme 'Arohata Wahine 2021' Waiata booklet, written in both te reo Māori and English Wright Family Foundation and Zonta International Mission advertising flier 'Designed by wāhine of Arohata Prison for the Matariki Concert 2021' bookmark New Zealand Department of Corrections 'Hīkina te mānuka take up the challenge' pocket sized flier New Zealand Department of Corrections 'Corrections officer Apiha Whare Herehere' promotional flier Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing six pieces of ephemera.

Date: 11 March 2007

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011

Reference: A-453-232

Description: Shows a man standing a street of government buildings. Both the Police and the Department of Corrections buildings are closed. Next to the Department of Corrections is the site where the Ministry of Accountability building is planned to be built with an uncertain completion date. Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - 12CARTOON 186mm x 133 Pls scan, correct and sent to Pix-on-hand [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 230 x 320 mm

Date: 1996

From: Johnston, Royden Hugh, 1915-2005 : Papers

Reference: MSX-6881

Description: Findings for the review of the Department of Corrections/NSAD Aspell House Habilitation Centre Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: [1977-1985]

From: Johnston, Royden Hugh, 1915-2005 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8021-5

Description: Reviews, reports, executive appointments, background information and piece by Harold Bridger, Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, on how he would manage the rehabilitation unit at Northfield Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1970-2000]

From: Kidman, Fiona Judith (Dame), 1940- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7118-075

Description: Inward correspondence; some outward Other Titles - Been there done that; writing by women imprisoned (1996) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2001

From: Agender New Zealand: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-11170-122

Description: Includes correspondence relating to, and policy papers released by, the Department of Corrections including, `Better corrections: Law for New Zealand, a public discussion document', accompanied by an Agender response to the document titled,`Better corrections law for New Zealand, a transgender perspective' and `About time: turning people away from a life of crime and reducing re-offending' Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1988-2002

From: Agender New Zealand: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-11170-123

Description: Papers relating to Treaty of Waitangi issues and the treatment of prisoners with gender issues in the New Zealand penal system Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2007

From: Moreu, Michael, 1969-: [Digital cartoons published in the Christchurch Press and Fairfax Media]

Reference: DCDL-0003914

Description: Corrections Minister, Damien O'Connor sits at his desk outside the rear entrance to parliament. The door has just slammed. A cat sitting nearby says that one would expect a Corrections Minister to make a lot of mistakes and the Minister agrees. Refers to a gaff made by Damien O'Connor taking a suspended prison officer to France as a member of the Parliamentary rugby team during the Rugby World Cup. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

From: Webb, Murray, 1947- :Digital caricatures

Reference: DCDL-0003157

Description: Caricature of Barry Matthews, Chief Executive of the Department of Corrections. In the news because the Corrections Department has been much criticised for errors of judgment. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0010678

Description: Shows a caricature of Corrections Minister, Judith Collins, with her mouth as a barred prison window which has been broken and out of which the CEO of Corrections, Barry Matthews, climbs. Refers to Judith Collins' attempt to sack Matthews after failures in the parole system. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0009705

Description: Shows a group of four men representing 'Inquiry' carrying a tree with a head of Damien O'Connor (Minister of Corrections) towards a large prison representing Corrections. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2006

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0000647

Description: The secretary pokes her head round the door of the Estimates Division and tells the estimates expert that the Minister of Corrections wants a word with him. There has just been a news broadcast indicating that the cost of two new prisons is $140 million above estimate. The estimates expert is at work throwing darts at a dartboard in order to come up with his next lot of figures. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

From: Moreu, Michael, 1969-: [Digital cartoons published in the Christchurch Press and Fairfax Media]

Reference: DCDL-0003133

Description: A small boy protests his innocence as the guilty evidence of paint all over the floor and wall indicates his guilt. His teacher smiles benignly and writes in his report that he could make a fine Corrections Department Chief one day. Refers to charges of incompetence being made against the Corrections Department relating to parolee, Graeme Burton, committing a further murder. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).