A woman who was an outside contact for a methamphetamine ring operating from within Rimutaka Prison will spend at least four years in jail before being eligible for parole.
Sara McSweeney, 29, was sentenced in the High Court in Wellington on Monday on five counts of importing a class A drug.
The drug ring was organised from the prison by her former partner, who was in jail for possessing methamphetamine, and a Thai national he had met there.
McSweeney arranged payment for and collection of the drugs, which were brought in from Thailand.
Justice Gendall said methamphetamine is a pernicious, dangerous drug which destroys lives and the amount brought in by the prison ring had a street value of more than $600,000.
