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Tena koutou katoa 

I would like to welcome everyone here today.

Crime is a serious issue, because it hits at a fundamental human right and need to feel safe in your home, on the streets and in the community.

Speech for the launch of book: “The Prison System and its Effects, Wherefrom, Whereto, and Why?”
Grand Hall, Parliament Buildings

Tena Katou katoa.

Speech notes for Mobility Dog socialisation programme. Auckland Women’s Regional Corrections Facility, Wiri, Manukau City

Speech notes for address at launch of new prisoner employment scheme.

Tena Koutou katoa, good morning and welcome to the opening of Spring Hill Corrections Facility building construction yard. 

Good afternoon

Thank you for the opportunity to address you today at this forum which brings together people with the most critical roles within the Corrections system.

Kia Ora, Talofa and welcome.

I welcome the opportunity to be here today as my first official engagement as Minister of Corrections. The opening of this 1.8 km walkway is a positive occasion.

Speech notes for address to open Drug Treatment & Health Units at Hawke’s Bay Regional Prison, South of Hastings

Our challenge is to continue the momentum we have built up in making sensible changes to the way with deal with offenders

Everything about this facility is designed to reducing re-offending.

The provision of library services to prisoners is just one of the many initiatives targeted towards providing prisoners with essential skills and habits to prepare them for a new life once they have completed their sentences.

Prisoner employment plays a key role in Effective Interventions and the types of prisoner employment initiatives we are looking at today are vital to reducing re-offending.

The Government's goal is to reduce the rate of re-offending, and this unit will make an important contribution to that aim.

Rehabilitating and reintegrating prisoners into society are core aspects of the Effective Interventions programme

As well as reassuring the public, prisons serve another very important purpose, and that is to work hard to reduce re-offending by addressing the individual rehabilitation and re-integration needs of every offender within their walls.

Damien O'Connor opens a new Drug & Alcohol Unit in Christchurch Men's Prison

This package funds a number of initiatives aimed at reducing re-offending rates by expanding rehabilitation and reintegration services.

Auckland's new corrections facility is purpose-built for the rehabilitation of women prisoners

Address to the Prison Fellowship National Conference.