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Mount Eden Corrections Facility
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Holds remand and short-sentence male prisoners from Auckland-region courts.
Background
Mount Eden Prisons consists of two separate facilities in the Auckland, New Zealand suburb of Mount Eden — the Mount Eden Prison and the Mount Eden Corrections Facility.
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Capacity
220
Current population
—
Occupancy
—
Year opened
1882
Operational
Facility profile
Operator
Department of Corrections (Ara Poutama Aotearoa)
Population held
male
Opened
1882
Region
Auckland
Security level
High
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
Previously operated by Serco under contract 2011–2017; returned to public-sector management after a series of reports on inmate-on-inmate violence ('fight clubs').
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 5/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Substantial documented known-issues record
Compared to other facilities in New Zealand
37 peersHigher risk than 0% of peer facilities in New Zealand.
Data completeness
68%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Department of Corrections — MECF
- Ara Poutama Aotearoa — Department of Corrections — New Zealand Government
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.