Educational programmes in New Zealand prisons
I Brown made this Official Information request to Department of Corrections
The request was successful.
From: I Brown
Dear Department of Corrections,
Please provide the following information:
1. A list of all educational programmes, courses, opportunities, or any other format or type (hereafter ‘programme’), available to inmates in New Zealand prisons for each of 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2022 including:
a. The name, type, subject matter, and organisational provider, of each programme; and
b. The name of the prison or prisons in which each programme is available; and
c. Whether it is available to remand prisoners, serving prisoners, or both; and
d. If a programme is run more than once per year, the number of times per year at each prison where it is run; and
e. The capacity of each programme both per individual programme run and per year, in each prison where the programme is available; and
f. Respectively, the numbers of prisoners that enrol in, attend, and complete successfully, each programme listed, both nationally and at each institution where that programme is available, per year.
Yours faithfully,
I Brown
From: Info@Corrections
Department of Corrections
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From: Info@Corrections
Department of Corrections
Kia ora,
Thank you for your email.
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Privacy Act 2020, the Official Information Act 1982 and the Victims Rights
Act 2002.
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Ngā mihi | Kind regards,
Ministerial Services
Department of Corrections, Ara Poutama Aotearoa
a: National Office, Mayfair House, 44-52 The Terrace, Wellington 6011
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Ngā mihi | Kind regards,
Ministerial Services
Department of Corrections, Ara Poutama Aotearoa
a: National Office, Mayfair House, 44-52 The Terrace, Wellington 6011
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From: Info@Corrections
Department of Corrections
Kia Ora
Please find the attached extension letter from Corrections.
Ngā mihi,
Ministerial Services
Department of Corrections, Ara Poutama Aotearoa
a: National Office, Mayfair House, 44-52 The Terrace, Wellington, 6011
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From: Info@Corrections
Department of Corrections
Kia ora I Brown,
Please see the attached correspondence from Corrections.
Ngā mihi,
Ministerial Services
Department of Corrections, Ara Poutama Aotearoa
a: Mayfair House, 44 - 52 The Terrace, Wellington 6011 | Private Bag
1206, Wellington 6140 |
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