After 30 years of decay this abandoned prison camp is barely recognisable as a prison anymore, this was a quick, fun early morning explore of a prison that was closed due to 1000 prisoners being released in New Zealand under the Criminal Justice Act in 1985.
“Waikune”
Cell blocks
Prison chapel
Prison chapel
Decayed floor in the prison chapel
Reception
Last remnant
Decor
Cell light
Cell
Prison dinner
Prison outhouse corridor
Tunnels
“Way of a man”
U R B E X C E N T R A L 
Reblogged this on National Corrections Oversight Coalition Reg'd OJP/DOj.
I spent 4 lags there in the 1970’s, just before it closed, i liked the place, i worked in the kitchen as the butcher, in the forestry falling trees, in the mill making fence battens, and i saw 5 xmas’s there too, i gave up jail in 1979-80, and that was that, but i still have fond memories of Waikune, met lots of mates there, today the place is gone more or less, its sad, i knew most wardens there, they were all good, today i feel like crying when i see the place, during the the 1990’s i went back on the way to somewhere and looked the place over with my son Dylan, i managed to take the Guard room sign off the guard room, while we were there there were people living in the cells with there kids, lol, oh Waikune, take care,