New Zealand · Waikato · Te Awamutu
Waikeria Prison
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Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1911
Operational
Facility profile
Operator
Department of Corrections (Ara Poutama Aotearoa)
Population held
male
Opened
1911
Region
Waikato
Security level
Multi-level
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
Site of a December 2020 prisoner riot that destroyed the high-security 'top jail' wing.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 5/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Mass-event keyword in sources (riot / massacre / uprising)
Compared to other facilities in New Zealand
37 peersHigher risk than 0% of peer facilities in New Zealand.
Data completeness
54%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Department of Corrections — Waikeria
- Ara Poutama Aotearoa — Department of Corrections — New Zealand Government
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.