I wonder if Serco is playing psychological mind games with identified easy targets within a closed off environment. Reward/punishment and this goes on and on until the victim doesn’t know which way is up. The military use these tactics.
Waatea new.com also carries the heading “TPPA Maori Consultation creates mystery”. If these well-honed mind games are taken into the community the result by design may well be a nation divided against itself through no fault on either side.
Can’t see the article, but is this because they pour more resources into rehabilitating Maori than they do white prisoners?
“They have adopted a name for the prison suggested by local iwi Te Akitai Waiohua: “Kohuora”, or “coming out of the mist into the new world of the living”.
The Government, which has set a target of reducing reoffending across the justice system by 25 per cent by 2017, has written Serco’s contract to maximise its incentive to help prisoners leave behind what was often a disruptive upbringing leading to crime, and join the law-abiding community – especially for Maori, who are jailed at six times the rate of non-Maori.
The company will get a bonus of at least $375,000 in each year when Maori prisoners released from Kohuora are imprisoned again within two years at a rate at least 10 per cent below the average of Maori released from the other 14 prisons (excluding maximum-security units). Serco’s bonus increases, up to a maximum of $1.125 million a year if its reimprisonment rate is at least 15 per cent below the other prisons.
If it achieves the bonus for Maori prisoners, it can also get a further bonus of between $125,000 and $375,000 in every year when the overall reimprisonment rate of all its released prisoners is at least 10 per cent lower than the other prisons.”
What is striking about the two interviews with prisoner Andrew Littleton and his mother Lorraine Pehi-Littleton on Radio New Zealand is that they are both very identifiably Maori, and have that honest and frank perspective that is typical of Maori culture. I think they both grew up in a region with a strong Maori identity (possibly Wanganui) . White New Zealanders like to think this is a trait of all New Zealanders but I think this has largely disappeared amongst the wider population which makes me wonder if it is a trait that was originally shared by Maori and probably working class British immigrants and perhaps the Irish who came here. Prime Minister John Key likes to present himself as a typical down to earth New Zealander but he lacks these traits completely.
Here is Andrew Litteton, the prisoner, speaking http://www.radionz.co.nz/…/details-emerge-from-prisoner…
Here’s is his mum Lorraine Pehi-Littleton – she is extremely compelling – fighting to protect her son
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I wonder if Serco is playing psychological mind games with identified easy targets within a closed off environment. Reward/punishment and this goes on and on until the victim doesn’t know which way is up. The military use these tactics.
Waatea new.com also carries the heading “TPPA Maori Consultation creates mystery”. If these well-honed mind games are taken into the community the result by design may well be a nation divided against itself through no fault on either side.
Can’t see the article, but is this because they pour more resources into rehabilitating Maori than they do white prisoners?
“They have adopted a name for the prison suggested by local iwi Te Akitai Waiohua: “Kohuora”, or “coming out of the mist into the new world of the living”.
The Government, which has set a target of reducing reoffending across the justice system by 25 per cent by 2017, has written Serco’s contract to maximise its incentive to help prisoners leave behind what was often a disruptive upbringing leading to crime, and join the law-abiding community – especially for Maori, who are jailed at six times the rate of non-Maori.
The company will get a bonus of at least $375,000 in each year when Maori prisoners released from Kohuora are imprisoned again within two years at a rate at least 10 per cent below the average of Maori released from the other 14 prisons (excluding maximum-security units). Serco’s bonus increases, up to a maximum of $1.125 million a year if its reimprisonment rate is at least 15 per cent below the other prisons.
If it achieves the bonus for Maori prisoners, it can also get a further bonus of between $125,000 and $375,000 in every year when the overall reimprisonment rate of all its released prisoners is at least 10 per cent lower than the other prisons.”
What is striking about the two interviews with prisoner Andrew Littleton and his mother Lorraine Pehi-Littleton on Radio New Zealand is that they are both very identifiably Maori, and have that honest and frank perspective that is typical of Maori culture. I think they both grew up in a region with a strong Maori identity (possibly Wanganui) . White New Zealanders like to think this is a trait of all New Zealanders but I think this has largely disappeared amongst the wider population which makes me wonder if it is a trait that was originally shared by Maori and probably working class British immigrants and perhaps the Irish who came here. Prime Minister John Key likes to present himself as a typical down to earth New Zealander but he lacks these traits completely.
Here is Andrew Litteton, the prisoner, speaking
http://www.radionz.co.nz/…/details-emerge-from-prisoner…
Here’s is his mum Lorraine Pehi-Littleton – she is extremely compelling – fighting to protect her son
http://www.radionz.co.nz/…/corrections-considers-legal…
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