Corrective Training for young people aged 15-20, who would otherwise have been sentenced to imprisonment for at least three months.
Gender: male
Capacity at 1971: 20
Muster at 23/8/1971: 22
Age profile: 16-21
Controllling organisation: Ministry of Justice. State control.
The site began as Rangipo, and the Hautu prison site was established shortly after. In the 1950, both prison camps were combined into Tongariro Prison.
Note from Corrections on operational period: Records provided to the RC go as early as 1954 and institutional knowledge shows ended at 1987.
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Held in Wellington:
R15182259 Justice Prison - Corrective training institute No. 2 - Tongariro 1987-1988
R15182920 Works - special conditions of contract - Tongariro Correctional Training Institution No. 2 Standard Cell Hut Complex 1988. See also multiple files relating to land and buildings - search "Tongariro Prison" and Rangipo Prison" [may not all be youth justice facility]. Also R5174362 Administration - Inspections - Tongariro Prison Farm Office Inspection 1961-1971
R5174595 Staffing arrangements - Prisons and Institutions - Tongariro Prison 1963-1971
R1656323 & R16563524 Tongariro Prison Farm (hard backed topographical photographs) 1982
R16563526 Tongariro Prison Farm (entrance and staff village) photograph - c.1982
R16563527 & R16563528 Tongariro Prison Farm (photographs) 1982
R1640002 Annual reports - Tongariro Prison Farm 1971-1978
R21595063 Working plans - Tongariro Prison Farm 1972-1977
R16952305 New land use concept being pioneered by prison workers on Tongariro Prison Farm - black & white still photograph 1973
R6794907 Land and Building - Hautu Prison - Proposal that Hautu and Rangipo be merged (now known as Tongariro Prison Farm) 1952-1954
R22958843 Inspection reports - Penal Institutions - Tongariro Prison Farm 1987-1991
R6798681 Stores notes of inspections - Tongariro Prison Farm 1966-1983
R25371782 Tongariro Prison Farm - externally fired bakers oven 1956
R16362481 - Tongariro Prison Farm - complaint from staff re lack of supply of bottled milk 1970
R16362958 Hautu Prison (Tongariro Prison Farm) 1922-1963
R11070193 Telephone connections - Tongariro Prison Farm [n.d.]; R11070464 to R11070466
R11070381 Annual reports - general - Tongariro Prison Farm 1941-1972
R11070413 Annual reports - general - Tongariro Prison Farm - 2 monthly production report - Industries 1966-1971
R11068290 Prisoners - general - Prisoners sentenced to terms of imprisonment by Courts in the Taumarunui-Rotorua-National Park area. Authority given for their reception in teh Waikune and Tongariro Prisons direct from the Courts 1953-1974
R11068407 Prisoners - general - religious services - Tongariro Prison Farm, appointment of Chaplain 1957-1970
R11068402 Prisoners - general - religious services - Tongariro Prison Farm 1953-1973
R11067892 & R11067893 Prison management - farm programme - Tongariro Prison Farm 1967-1973
R11067900 Prison management - Herd testing - Tongariro Prison Farm 1956-1963
R5902844 Staff - departmental establishments - Justice and Prisons - Borstals and Prisons - Hautu and Rangipo/Tongariro Prison Farm [n.d.]
R5174278 Administration - Proclamation of Rangipo Prison 1925-1973
R5174345 Administration - Inspections - Rangipo Prison 1960-1961
R5174354 Administration - Inspections - Reports by psychologist - Hautu, Rangipo and Waikune Prisons 1954-1963
R5174603 Staffing arrangements - Prisons and Institutions - Rangipo Prison 1941-1969
R16563530 Rangipo Prison Farm (and corrective training institution) photograph 1982
R22443018 & R22443019 Departmental establishments - Justice - Hautu Rangipo Prisons 1970-1987
R20448812 Unregistered files - Prisons - Rangipo 1949-1966
R22580608 Administration - progress reports - Half Yearly - Rangipo Prison Farm 1978-1991
R16362570 Proposed subdivision of Rangipo Prison for settlement purposes 1937-1949
R16363045 Request for facilities to interview prisoners at Hautu and Rangipo Prisons in connection with thefts in district 1936-1937
R11070460 Annual reports - general - monthly progress report -Rangipo Prison 1941-1953
R11068231 Appointment of Prison Medical Officers -Hautu, Rangipo 1915-1966
R11068309 Prisoners - general - Hautu Prison and Rangipo - Conduct of Prisoners 1933-1973
R11068447 Prisoners - general - Work undertaken by Hautu, Rangipo and Waikune Prisons in connection with Taupo Fisheries 1926-1953
R11198551 Live stock returns - Rangipo Prison 1925
R11198587 Hautu Rangipo Development fund - Control of funds transferred from Public Works Department to vote Prisons Consul's Fund 1927
Held in Auckland:
R2094628 Tongariro Prison Farm 1986
R25791626 & R25791627 Waiariki Polytechnic and Department of Justice prison education programmes delivery - Tongariro and Rangipo Prisons correspondence & inter-agency co-operation and funding agreements 1991-1992
R23582700 Action file - Reeves-Palmer v Durward (teacher) and Banks (Controlling Officer of Rangipo Prison 1945
Information shared by the Department of Corrections with the Crown Response Unit on 19 June 2024
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