So Private Prison is running Prison Fight Clubs – well done NZ

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Put aside the madness that ACC – a Government Department – is a 30% shareholder in Serco’s private prison thus meaning a State Agency is reliant on imprisonment for revenue.

Put aside the fact that with Wiri open we now have the highest proportion of prisoners in private prisons with no public debate on the ramifications of that.

Put aside the fact that Serco have an overseas reputation for corruption and prisoner abuse.

Put aside the fact that Serco is making a profit from imprisonment and that we have signed a 25 year deal where we pay for all beds even if the cells aren’t full, building an incentive into always keeping them full.

Put aside all that, surely the idea that we have active fight clubs occurring in our private prison, getting filmed and sharing it on the internet is so shameful and embarrassingly barbaric that it will prick the conscience of the middle classes?

Surely?

Fight clubs in prisons are an obscenity, they suggest a level of condoned violence that can breed nothing but more violence. This counter productive environment generates only more broken and damaged men, surely this must cut through the base media created anger we get over crime?

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The reason these prisoners can meet in large groups and fight is because the Private Prison makes its money  from a) forced prison labour and b) fewer staff members.

If you don’t have many staff, then you can’t watch over all the prisoners.

Well done NZ – you voted for this.

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  1. Absolutely disgusting.
    I honestly never thought I would see the day when this happened in NZ.
    But considering all the things Bomber wrote in his post about privatised prisons, it was actually inevitable.
    It is a National disgrace that this has happened, both for the party and our country as a whole.

  2. We have far more Con Artists on the outside than we do inside.

    And the Beehive is over populated with them, such as Con Key, Con English, Con Brownlee Con Smith, and their cohorts.

    These fools are about as brainless as can be.

    • Not brainless. That’s the one thing we do know about them. (Assuming you meant the Nat politicians not their voters – in which case, as you were.)

  3. It is such an appalling situation. I wonder how many of the prisoners, additionally, are diagnosable psychiatric cases who ought to be in an entirely different type of facility?

  4. Agree Martyn.

    No place for Fight Clubs in a civilized society. Prisons included.

    The result of privatization of public services, with profit as the goal, is non delivery of service! Doesn’t take an Einstein to work that one out! It’s bound to fail!

    With the strong focus on profit, Serco is clearly demonstrating lack of health and safety procedures in place to protect prisoners and staff. No doubt to save a few dollars here and there!

    To have allowed this fight to have evolved to the disgraceful stage it did is due to bad management practice. The next step will be death, if not taken in hand immediately!

  5. This is what you get when services are farmed out to the private companies and shareholders. So much for ‘efficiency’ gains. Yesterday I came out of seeing Russel Brand’s excellent “The Emperor’s New Clothes” [highly recommended] boiling with anger about all this but cannot see that anything can be changed now that the neoliberal consensus seems to have an iron grip on most countries.

  6. This is nothing new. A prisoner I used to visit in the “special needs” ( for the sick and mentally ill ) part of Auckland prison about five years ago told me about how prisoners “upstairs” were desperate to get into the special needs unit because they were terrified of being singled out to fight. He said the fights were filmed and the were considered by some, including the guards as good entertainment. Prisoners don’t speak publically about the culture inside for fear of reprisals. I was told by two inmates that the gangs run the prisons and the financial system inside. In those days smoking was allowed so cigarettes were of considerable value. Everything in prison costs a huge amount of money. If you owe ten dollars you usually have to pay back twenty. Some prisoners have no money in their account some have quite a lot. The hard core boss inmates would make first class neo-liberals.

  7. There is no proof, none whatever, that we ‘voted for this’.

    That elections can and have been electronically rigged/falsified has been known for 12 years.

    Have any of ours? Very hard to prove. Evidence in favour – all the other stuff the nacts are known to have lied about. Evidence against – that having lied about all that other stuff, they would somehow choose not to lie about this one as well.

    The need has arrived to replace secret with open (trackable) ballot.

  8. John Perkins self professed economy hit-man states that prisons are regarded by the ruling elite as being a country’s asset. Once privatized, who can stop the brutalization, victimization and brainwashing? If brainwashing is used, what will be the trigger for those released to cause even more problems?

    Our prisoners need lifting out of these private swamps and protected from this odious ruling Banking Elite who were so clearly identified in the report by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

    Prisoners are human beings and they have a right to re-education, dignity and self-respect and only then will they have a chance to reflect on their actions and realize that their victims had the self-same right.

  9. WELCOME TO NZ !!!

    WELCOME TO THE THUNDERDOME !!!!

    The difference being we haven’t got the excuse of living in a post nuclear war barbaric state of living ….

    But we can claim to have a Premier called Kee that heartily applauds the servile minions to have to live like rats…

    He’s a bit like the old time Victorian aristocracy…who used to take strolls through the east end of London just to watch the working class fight and shed each others blood…

    Great entertainment for the blue-bloods.

    And then sit on their fat arse while they sent more of the lower classes off to war and die by having a bayonet rammed through their guts.

    For the furtherance of the aristocracy’s future financial gain , of course…

    Well that’s a bit like Serco…and Kee.

  10. Think of Serco’s private prisons as gladiator schools. And that the public will be on the blunt, receiving, end of gladiator skill-sets when prisoners finally ‘graduate’.

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