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In the News (Tue 10 Nov 09)

  
  Jailhouse Rot
Bestic was the Regional Manager of Paremoremo from August 1998 until December 1999, responsible for 640 inmates, 350 staff and a $21 million budget.
Paremoremo is always seen in the media as the nation’s high security facility - and it is, but it is not just that.
Paremoremo has 60 paedophile inmates volunteering for the same course of rehabilitation as at Rolleston in the South Island.
www.investigatemagazine.com /april00jail.htm   (2922 words)

  
 Prison to increase inmate numbers | NATIONAL | NEWS | tvnz.co.nz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Residents living near Auckland Prison at Paremoremo are concerned about the Corrections Department's plans to increase the number of inmates allowed to live there.
Paremoremo Residents and Ratepayers Association says the move is disappointing and comes despite long-time assurances that the prison's population would not grow.
Corrections is applying for a change to the District Plan to allow the extra prisoners to be housed at Paremoremo.
tvnz.co.nz /view/page/411749/663950   (165 words)

  
 Massey University Extramural Students' Society Inc
I am an inmate of Paremoremo Maximum Security Prison and it was with great interest I read your article 'Student inmates' in the August 2003 Off Campus.
What we couldn't accept, and refused to accept was the fact that we were prisoners made us second class citizens, or lesser persons than those who hadn't been caught for their crimes".
To Dr Newbold, the supposed brilliant criminologist who did his masters thesis while in Paremoremo, I would like to ask if he realises that over 20% of inmates did leave school with educational qualifications.
www.massey.ac.nz /~wwexmss/Offcampus/November2003/Letters.htm   (1041 words)

  
 Auckland Mountainbike Club - Kids' MTB Track, Lloyd Elsmore Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
It is bounded on one side by the Upper Waitemata Harbour, to the west by the Paremoremo Creek, on the north there is another farm and the eastern boundary is road.
Notable amongst these are fine mature Norfolk Island pine and cliff pohutukawa on the tip of the peninsula, groves of kowhai adjacent to Paremoremo Creek and the regenerating native forest along the harbour edge that includes frequent totara (Podocarpus totara) and kowhai and occasional pohutukawa, tanekaha (Pyllocladus trichomanoides), kahikatea (Dacrycarpus dacrydiodes) and maire (Nestegis sp.).
The Prebbles sold their farm to the government for Paremoremo prison in 1962 and moved to the Tauranga area.
www.aucklandmtb.co.nz /accessSandersReserve.shtml   (4786 words)

  
 Paremoremo prisoners celebrate love of God by Lavinia Ngatoko
The prisoners shared their testimonies and a sumptuous lunch with more than 120 visitors who had come to the prison compound from various ministries and churches around Auckland.
Prison authorities were also present at the special occasion, which got off to a great start with praise and worship led by a talented prisoners' worship band.
Don Simpson, who regularly takes a team into prisons such as Paremoremo for Christian Age Ministries, said it was "awesome" to see the dedication of Christians to prison ministry.
www.christianage.org /paremoremo_prisoners_celebrate_l.htm   (515 words)

  
 Corrections Connection
PAREMOREMO, NEW ZEALAND - The hostage drama at Auckland Prison at Paremoremo has ended without injury.
The Corrections Department says the three hour standoff between a prisoner who locked himself and a female offcer in a cupboard at Paremoremo prison has been resolved.
Police managed to break into the cleaning cupboard where the prisoner was holding the officer hostage - overpower him and free the woman unharmed.
www.corrections.com /news/article.aspx?articleid=14004   (194 words)

  
 INMATES
Last issue the former head of Paremoremo jail called for the reintroduction of the death penalty.
Furthermore, Taylor implied that as inmates were neither provided with constructive pursuits, nor taught new ways of reasoning, they readily fell prey to the homogenizing effect of socializing with hardened criminals.
He was found guilty by jury of importing heroin and sentenced to 6 years and again taken to Mt Eden prison; this time as a sentenced prisoner.
www.investigatemagazine.com /inmates.htm   (2999 words)

  
 NEW ZEALAND: Suspected terrorist held in Auckland jail
Ahmed Zaoui, who arrived in New Zealand this week, is understood to have the same name as an Algerian national, sentenced to death by his country after being found guilty of acts of terrorism.
The man detained in Paremoremo has the same name as the man who fronted the Algerian Islamic Salvation front (FIS) and is labelled a "prominent person" on the British Home Office website of asylum seekers.
He was sentenced to death in the mid-1990s by an Algeria court for supplying weapons from Europe to guerrillas in Algeria, and was exiled to Burkina Faso, a west-African country that borders Niger and Ghana.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/805499/posts   (1381 words)

  
 Paremoremo East Community Profile(published)
The area used for this profile is based on Statistics New Zealand's area unit.
The unemployment rate in Paremoremo East was 5.0 percent, compared with
The most popular occupational group in Paremoremo East was Service and Sales Workers (19.4 percent).
www2.stats.govt.nz /domino/external/web/CommProfiles.nsf/FindInfobyArea/509000-au   (509 words)

  
 CERTOps.com
Their call comes in the wake of a hostage drama at Paremoremo prison in Auckland today, the second this year.
Beven Hanlon, president of the Corrections Association, the prison officers' union, said there was nothing to stop the situation arising again and he called for a review of officers' safety.
North Shore police said a 35-year-old male inmate at Paremoremo would be charged with kidnapping after the hostage incident.
www.certops.com /certops/news/Nov110609.html   (560 words)

  
 Paremoremo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Lawyer Tony Ellis is calling for a commission of inquiry after a prisoner claimed he and others were badly beaten by officers at Paremoremo following a riot in 1998.
The unnamed prisoner sent Mr Ellis a tape last month in which he claimed he was beaten and kicked by guards.
Two officers at Paremoremo had been stabbed and almost killed in two months before the riot in which 68 inmates caused $1 million of damage to the prison, Mr McCarthy said.
www.nzherald.co.nz /location/story.cfm?l_id=395&ObjectID=8500814   (782 words)

  
 Zaoui victim of mental torture, says Locke - Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke is accusing the Government of being responsible for the mental torture of Algerian asylum seeker Ahmed Zaoui and is demanding that he be immediately moved out of Paremoremo Prison.
Trauma consultant and professor of psychology, Tony Taylor has conducted a three-day examination of Mr Zaoui and concludes that he has been “mentally damaged” as a result of his solitary confinement.
At Paremoremo he has less rights than sentenced prisoners, who are at least able to mix with each other.
www.greens.org.nz /searchdocs/PR6777.html   (361 words)

  
 Paremoremo Residential Properties for Sale - Realestate.co.nz
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Paremoremo, North Shore City - A Land of Dream
www.realestate.co.nz /residential/all/paremoremo   (232 words)

  
 Hostage drama continues at Paremoremo - Newstalk ZB   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The boss of the country's prisons is rushing to Auckland as the hostage drama at Auckland Prison continues.
A long-serving prisoner in the Paremoremo facility's medium security wing has taken a female prison officer hostage and locked her with him in a cleaner's storage cupboard.
He says the wellbeing of the officer is their primary concern and he will not comment on whether weapons are involved.
www.newstalkzb.co.nz /newsdetail1.asp?storyID=103355   (288 words)

  
 Paremoremo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Inmates who lit a number of fires in the Auckland Central Remand Prison on Wednesday night were forcibly removed and taken to Paremoremo Prison yesterday morning, holding up court appearances.
The inmates were relocated to Paremoremo prison yesterday morning but Auckland Central had to be locked down while they were taken out, Mr Hanlon said.
He said the inmates were asked to leave their cells but most had refused and had to be forcibly removed.
www.nzherald.co.nz /location/story.cfm?l_id=395&ObjectID=10344744   (503 words)

  
 Andrew Diver | Entrants | World Cup Predictions, Germany 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Andrew Diver has scored 76 points (40 for the group stage and 36 for the knockout stage) and is in position 4206 on the leaderboard.
There are 1 entrants from 'Paremoremo D Block':
DISCLAIMER: World Cup Predictions is an unofficial competition and is not affiliated in any way with FIFA or the 2006 FIFA World Cup™ Germany.
www.fantasyfacup.com /worldcup/entrants/5515   (70 words)

  
 Therapeutic Storytelling Intervention - Testimonials and Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In 1994 Ron was invited to use TSI with inmates at Paremoremo Prison
Ron was keen to work with the inmates to see if his process would be effective with men who were endogenously stuck in behaviours that were costly and anti-social.
The second is a poem which was sent to Ron Phillips by one of the life-term inmates in ‘C-Block’ at Paremoremo.
www.tsi.co.nz /contexts-justice.html   (1088 words)

  
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On 12 December, he was transferred to Paremoremo Maximum Security Prison, where he was placed in solitary confinement on the basis of a threat assessment issued by the National Bureau of Criminal Intelligence of the New Zealand Police on December 11 2002.
A security risk certificate was issued by the Director of the Security Intelligence Service (SIS) on 20 March 2003, and the Minister of Immigration chose to rely on it on 23 March 2003, thereby resulting in Mr.
Zaoui was subject to during his time at Paremoremo, including rough handling during strip searches and misunderstandings due to language barriers.
www.humanrights.co.nz /documents/CATparallelreportreleasedtoNZmedia.doc   (3469 words)

  
 Albany, New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Council notice states: "It is prohibited to abandon chickens or to uplift them from this area." Also provided is a number for chicken "re-home" options.
In contrast to the suburb's relatively bourgeois orientation, New Zealand's main maximum security prison is located at Paremoremo, five kilometres to the west of Albany, although this locality is increasingly being gentrified.
To the north-west also lies Coatesville, a predominantly residential locality favoured by members of Auckland's horse-riding, Range-Rover driving, National-voting upper-middle class.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albany,_New_Zealand   (503 words)

  
 Paremoremo Houses - realestate.com.au
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Paremoremo These 5 acres are sure to impress…
www.realestate.com.au /realestate/nzni/paremoremo/auckland/houses   (145 words)

  
 Whenuapai Airport Action Group WAAG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The recent publicity regarding the formation of a joint airport company called North West Airport Company Limited (NWACL) with shareholders of Airport Operator - Infratil, Waitakere City, North Shore City and Rodney District Councils, signals that there is a firm intention to proceed with the development of a commercial airport at Whenuapai.
On the one side there will be NWACL, and on the other side will be the affected residents of Whenuapai, Herald Island, Greenhithe, Albany, Paremoremo and many suburbs right across the North Shore to East Coast Bays.
The question we must ask ourselves as residents is: are we going to just roll over and allow this unnecessary commercial exploitation of the airbase land to take place at the expense of our environment?
waag.co.nz   (412 words)

  
 Locke glad Zaoui is out of Paremoremo hell-hole - Green Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Locke glad Zaoui is out of Paremoremo hell-hole - Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke has welcome the end of Algerian asylum seeker, Ahmed Zaoui’s solitary confinement at Paremoremo prison.
“I am very happy that at last he is out of his hell-hole at Paremoremo,” said Mr Locke, the Green Foreign Affairs spokesperson.
www.greens.org.nz /searchdocs/PR6838.html   (196 words)

  
 Bed of Ferns Photo | TrekNature
Photos: Earth >> Oceania >> New Zealand >> North Island >> Auckland >> Paremoremo
One of my sons has moved house again.
Great mass filled photo and this as a natural setting.
www.treknature.com /gallery/photo50372.htm   (485 words)

  
 The Eagles Foundation of America Inc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Controversial former light heavyweight boxer, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, who served 15 years for a homicide he vows he never committed, recently met up with John Wareham at a Manhattan meeting for Queensland University Alumnae.
The Eagles "Taking Wings" program was introduced, with dramatic success, to inmates of the Maximum Security Unit at Paremoremo, Auckland.
The October 2005 program itself was brief but intense, [read more]
www.eaglesusa.org /news.php   (187 words)

  
 Hostage at Paremoremo - Newstalk ZB
Hostage at Paremoremo - Newstalk ZB On Air Now: Murray Deaker
A prisoner is reported to have taken a woman hostage at Auckland's Paremoremo prison north of the city.
Details are sketchy, but a large number of police cars have been sent to the scene and the Eagle helicopter is up.
www.newstalkzb.co.nz /newsdetail1.asp?storyID=103343   (166 words)

  
 Nixon Pictures - Awards
They spoke openly about their past and their prison experiences.
With the aid of Wellsford's Blue Light Police initiative, a group of youths already headed down the path of a likey prison sentence accompanied John and Christine back to Paremoremo Prison.
Two serving inmates spoke openly to them about what exactly goes on behind the walls of the prison and left a lasting impression.
www.nixonpictures.co.nz /awards.html   (333 words)

  
 Designpoint Ltd - Residential Projects
Although very tight site constraints were present, living spaces are able to open onto ground level and a private pool area to the north.
Attwood Rd, Paremoremo - Urban style set in a bush clad hillside
North West Anchorage, Omaha - Permanence of copper and plaster
www.designpoint.co.nz /resident.php?key=11   (238 words)

  
 News: New Zealand News: Hostage Drama At Paremoremo Prison
News: New Zealand News: Hostage Drama At Paremoremo Prison
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Newstalk ZB reporter Liz Garton talks to Larry Williams from outside Paremoremo prison where a female prison officer is understood to have been taken hostage by two prisoners.
xtramsn.co.nz /news/0,,11964-6275132-25,00.html   (78 words)

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