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Inmates to refurbish state houses
By Radio New Zealand
Published: 07/10/2008

NEW ZEALAND - Prisoners are to refurbish state houses under a new Government programme. Corrections Minister Phil Goff says Housing New Zealand will pay the Department of Corrections about $1 million a year to refurbish dilapidated houses.

The houses will be relocated to a yard inside the Spring Hill Corrections Facility near Meremere. There they will be stripped then rebuilt and redecorated, and fitted with new kitchens made by prisoners. Read more.

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