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Ara Poutama Aotearoa, Department of Corrections
Our Mission:
We make the community safer by supporting people to leave us better and with brighter prospects.
Ara Poutama Aotearoa, the Department of Corrections, is the government agency responsible for community and institutional corrections in New Zealand — delivering rehabilitation, reintegration and community-based supervision, including through Community Corrections offices here in Wellington, Lower Hutt and Porirua, and Rimutaka Prison in Upper Hutt.