Corrections has apologised to 15 women and paid them $25,000 each in compensation after inmates faced intrusive "internal searches" when they were suspected of concealing contraband. The searches were "systemic" at Auckland Region Women's Corrections Facility between 2006 and 2016, Leota said in a statement. The remaining 14 women Corrections was trying to trace were no longer in prison. Medical officers who carried out the searches at Auckland Region Women's Corrections Facility had their services "terminated" in January 2018. Female doctors carried out 38 of these, a male doctor carried out three, and a Corrections nurse carried out one.

Source: Stuff March 26, 2019 00:12 UTC