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Auckland Region Women's Corrections Facility

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Auckland Region Women's Prison
Auckland Region Women's Prison

Auckland Region Women's Corrections Facility (ARWCF) is a women's prison in the Wiri suburb of South Auckland, New Zealand. Also in the vicinity are the Wiri Mens Corrections Facility and Korowai Manaaki Youth Justice Facility. It opened in 2006 and is the first purpose-built women's prison in New Zealand; there are two older women's prisons. About 6 per cent of the New Zealand prisoner population is female. ± The facility houses about 330 prisoners including remand prisoners - alleged criminals not yet sentenced - as well as normal sentenced prisoners. It has a specialist unit for mothers and babies. A small number of women give birth while serving a sentence of imprisonment and others have young children at the time of sentencing. Some prisoners with babies (up to nine months) may be eligible to live in the mothers and babies unit. The prison is built in a rehabilitated quarry site. Construction of the 38 buildings cost NZ$159 million and was carried out substantially by Sinclair Knight Merz. The site is 47 ha in size, of which 13 ha are currently covered by buildings, leaving room for future expansion, which was included in the design parameters.

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Auckland Region Women's Corrections Facility
Hautu Drive, Manurewa Wiri

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Auckland Region Women's Correctional Facility

Hautu Drive 20
2104 Manurewa, Wiri
Auckland, New Zealand
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Puhinui Craters
Puhinui Craters

The Puhinui Craters are located in Auckland's Puhinui Reserve and are part of the Auckland volcanic field in the North Island of New Zealand. They were first recognised as volcanic craters in 2011. A cluster of three small maar craters like these is unique in the Auckland volcanic field. Their ages are unknown but most probably all three erupted during the same eruptive episode. They could have been associated with the eruption of nearby Matukutureia (also known as McLaughlin's Mountain) but this is speculation at present. The cluster is composed of three maars, encircled by tuff cones that over tens of thousands of years have been partly breached and eroded by runoff from the small freshwater lakes appearing in the craters shortly after the eruption. Due to the maars' very gentle rise over the otherwise level terrace of Pleistocene age, their volcanic origin had not been recognised earlier. Puhinui Pond Crater, located near the reserve entrance, contains a farm pond. The crater is 200 m × 150 m (660 ft × 490 ft) across and the nearly complete surrounding tuff cone rim rises 1.5–2 m (4.9–6.6 ft) above the pond.Puhinui Arena Crater is breached on both the west and east sides. It is 250 m × 150 m (820 ft × 490 ft) across and its drained and sediment-filled flat floor is 2–2.5 m (6.6–8.2 ft) below the rim of the surrounding tuff ring.Puhinui Eroded Crater lies directly east of Arena Crater on the route of the small stream that drains the latter. Eroded Crater is breached at both west and east ends and its tuff cone partly eroded by the adjacent Puhinui Creek. It is less well-preserved than the other two craters but of similar size.