Reporter: Rod Vaughan Producer: Julian O'Brien The changing face of New Zealand prisons. Rod Vaughan looks at new rehabilitation programmes being tried around the country - and the personal impact this is having on inmates, victims and their families. In the first one-hour documentary of its kind, Assignment is granted the highest level of access to several Kiwi prisons. Vaughan talks with offenders, victims, and the families of both, in a special investigation into the new initiatives being used by the Department of Corrections. The new programme - Integrated Offender Management, promises better results for prisoners once they are released back into the community, each programme being tailor-made to suit the individual. Vaughan speaks exclusively with convicted murderer Andrew McGlynn who has spent 18 of his 34 years behind bars - and finds although he admits not being ready to be let out yet, he claims he is making progress. At present the inmate numbers per head of population in New Zealand prisons are the second highest in the western world, after the United States. Statistics also show that the rate of re-offending amongst men is at 30 per cent, 17 per cent for woman. Vaughan also looks at female offenders at Arohata Prison, near Wellington, including a 26-year-old woman who is serving her sixth stretch inside, after being jailed on numerous offences which all went toward supporting her $500 a day drug habit. [14/06/01]

New Zealand's flagship, in-depth current affairs programme covering a host of local stories. Presented by Richard Long, with reporters Kerryanne Evans, Rob Harley, Jackie Maher and Rod Vaughan.