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Up one level- New Zealand Faith-based Unit impacted by Lockdown
- In late 2007, the New Zealand Department of Corrections implemented an extended time of lockdown for prisoners due to various staffing and budget constraints. In many prisons, including Rimutaka Prison housing the PF New Zealand Faith-based Unit, prisoners are locked in their cells from 5:00pm until 8:00am. While posing challenges to the activities of PF New Zealand volunteers in all programmes, the new lockdown policy offers unique problems for the faith-based unit.
- Murder in the Faith-Based Unit
- At 10.30am, Thursday, 4th April a profound event occurred in the faith based unit at Rimutaka Prison, which shook both staff and inmates to the core. It was at that time that an inmate was found dead, with a garden fork through his throat.
- Faith-based Prisons: An Innovative Path Towards Offender Rehabilitation
- ‘He Korowai Whakapono’, the faith-based prison unit at Rimutaka Prison, provides inmates with a Christian programme emphasizing spirituality and moral development, with the aim of rehabilitation and reduced re-offending.
- PF New Zealand – The first Sycamore Tree Project® in the Faith Based Unit
- Five victims of crime and five offenders took part in this inaugural STP in the Faith Based Unit. PFNZ staff member Jackie Katounas ran the programme along with David and Karina TeHira who will run subsequent STP at Rimutaka Prison. I have attended quite a number of STP Celebration events and I hear similar things comings from both offenders and victims. Let me share with you some of the comments that were shared with the assembled guests at the FBU this morning.
- Faith-based Prison Rehabilitation
- An innovative New Zealand prison unit is using prayer and spiritual transformation as a means to reduce prisoner re-offending. The Faith-Based Unit at Rimutaku Prison is the first of its kind in Australasia and represents a unique Christian approach to rehabilitating convicted criminals.