Dear National Party voters of NZ – so how’s that private prison experiment working out for you?

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Let’s be very clear.

If you voted National or ACT at the last election, you voted for this atrocity at Serco.

You voted for ACC to have a 30% share in the Wiri Prison meaning a Government Department was reliant on incarceration for revenue.

You voted for a company with an appalling overseas prisoner abuse record.

You voted for a company that has defrauded Governments it’s worked for.

You voted for more prisoners in private prisons than anywhere else in the world.

You voted for brutal prison fight clubs where the staff bet on the outcome.

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And you voted for prisoners drinking alcohol and smoking drugs in prison because the staffing ratio is so low Guards let Prisoners do as they please just to stop riots..

This is all on you Dear National Party voter. The billion dollars we’ve blown on the new prison, that’s on you. The tens of millions Serco are milking in profits every year, that’s on you. The appalling abuses and damaged prisoner environment, it’s all on you.

I’ve been following the privatisation of prisons since they started in NZ, and the madness of this right wing experiment is only erupting now, and I’m afraid I have zero sympathy.

National Party voters didn’t care when we made arguments that it is the state’s solemn obligation to be responsible for the removal of liberty of another human being because that kind of thinking is lefty pinko and you hate lefty pinko.

National Party voters didn’t care that Serco had an appalling prisoner rights abuse record because they’re just dirty prisoners who deserve the bash right?

National Party voters might have cared about the hundreds of millions in fraud perpetrated by Serco because they love to pretend to be so economically efficient.

National Party voters might also have been ashamed and embarrassed that brutal prison fight clubs occur where prison staff bet on the outcome because National Party voters like to think of themselves as civil and such things are frowned upon at the dinner parties in leafy suburbs.

But National Party voters will certainly scream to the high heavens that prisoners are smoking drugs and getting drunk because NZ’s Sensible Sentencing Lynch mob have injected such anger and hate into the debate we yearn to see Prisoners suffer. The mainstream media love to feed this anger with shocking news coverage despite our crime rate dropping over the past 20 years. We lock more people up than most other places on the planet because of this red neck thirst for vengeance.

National Party voters didn’t give a damn about the philosophical issues of private prisons replacing public ones, they didn’t give a damn that the contractor abused their prisoners, they might have raised an eye at the corruption, and they would have twitched uncomfortably at brutal prison fights, but what will force action is when National Party voters sense of how much prisoners should suffer inside is challenged by images of Prisoners drinking and smoking dope.

National are the Party who stripped Prisoners of their right to vote so they don’t even have the ability to vote for change.

We are a juvenile culture that simply doesn’t have the democratic tools to debate issues like adults and thus we get ideologically driven social policy that results in this abomination.

Suck it up National Party voting NZ, you’ve made this bed, now lie in it!

All we have done is create a prison environment where men are more damaged than when they went in. Congratulations.

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  1. That “competitive edge”, I suppose, achieved by paying staff less and keeping training at minimum cost, also running things with less supervision, as that may just be additional costs.

    The “free market” rules, and so we should not be surprised.

    There is a party tonight, in the gym at Auckland Remand Prison, lots of weed, home brew and also home delivered stuff, including KFC, come along to the cell block and gym, lots of freebees and also great entertainment, sparring buddies showing their muscles.

    Doors open from 8 pm, just knock and staff will wave you through.

    Thanks John Key and Sam Lotu Iiga, you are great buddies, we love you. The guards are invited too, but they must bring a plate and a few six packs, thanks.

    We will post a video of this great event tomorrow on the headline news of both major channels.

  2. Martin you are so right – National Party supporters only care about themselves.
    They don’t look at the big picture, it’s all about how will they benefit under this regime.
    As long as the employers can keep their staff on zero hour contracts, as long as there is no capital gains taxes, and as long as the poor don’t include their families they will support this evil party till the cows come home.
    They are greedy, they are mean, they are objectionable.
    But what scares me is the Labour Party appear no different to this evil National government.
    Douglas and Prebble started this so called “trickle down” rubbish, and I don’t hear or see any of the current Labour Party members doing a great deal to put a stop to these abhorrent abuses.
    I think it is time for all Labour supporters to let these useless puppets know that unless they get off their behinds and start to represent the working people of this country, we will ensure that they spend another term in opposition.

  3. Nat voters should be congratulated for a lot more s**t than just prisons, I can tell you. They take the prize for completely destroying a once proud country. Their children will thank them, I’m sure.

  4. I’m not sure which ‘goal’ the private prison experiment comes under.
    We know that John Key attends The Bilderberg. Perhaps those people who champion National and/or ACT might like to enter and click on “21 Goals of The Bilderberg” and decide for themselves which ‘goal’ this experiment comes under.

    Also suggest they click on Ritchie Allen TV Show Episode No. 8 published 17 July. Make your hair stand on end!

    • HAHAHAHA !!!…just LOOK at all those down clicks – the right wing troll brigade doesn’t like you being oh- too -loud about Premier Kee and the Bilderburgers , now , do they ?

      Like rats caught in a spotlight your getting far , far too conspiratorial for that simple connection between Premier Kee and his mates … and for those who KNOW its true and fully applaud that connection….

      Hell !!!

      They just wish you’d shut the hec up and go away.

      Keep at it.

      Their at odds with the old saying ‘ The truth hurts ‘.

  5. What amused me was our MSM (TV1 News) zeroed right into it. Did they highlight the problem of prisoners fighting, alcohol, drugs and lack of guards in this privatized prison. Oh, No! They went straight to the heart of the problem as far as this government and Serco are concerned, “Prevent cell phones from getting into the prison and so preventing these facts getting out!”
    Go back to sleep New Zealand, your government has everything under control!

    Don’t know how TV3’s news handled it as I am boycotting TV3.

    • Yep just like Dirty Politics, all they cared about was who did the hack rather than the contents of the hack.
      And sad to say, a lot of NZers won’t care about the fighting. But they’ll be outraged about the intoxication and cellphones.
      “Why aren’t they breaking rocks instead of living the high life?” will be the words from from many kiwi lips.
      It makes me so sad at how empathy has been driven out of the New Zealand national culture by the National party culture.

  6. “We are a juvenile culture that simply doesn’t have the democratic tools to debate issues like adults”

    You can watch Parliament TV any time they are debating… They never answer the questions properly… Always a protected cover thy ass answer… And they all bully and bash each other like school kids… Primary School kids… No kindergarten kids… They all need their naps…

    I spoke to someone I know who was in Prison for about 7 months… He used to get high all the time… He doesn’t drink but used to participate in those fight clubs.

    Whoever thought it was a good idea to hire SERCO (who had been fired by England)… Should be sent packing…

  7. And Dear National Voters (and David Seymour’s ACT), when will we expect the same low standards to become apparent in Private Public Partnership Charter Schools?

  8. The National Party spin doctors will be burning the midnight oil on this one. Won’t be able to use the usual line of blaming the previous Labour government this time.
    National’s pat

  9. I suppose, even if the argument of private prisons entered the voting decision process of ordinary NZers, that a National led government offered a better balance of outcomes than the opposition at the time of the 2008 election. Did National even make it’s intentions known regarding reinstating private management of prisons prior to that election?

    Most law abiding NZers I know have more to worry about regarding their own welfare than the fortunes of those who choose the break the law to the extent they deserve custodial sentences.

    Having worked for the Dep’t of Corrections, I am well aware of the glaring deficiencies of Serco’s management of what was then ACRP, and now MEP. However, to try to place the blame of that company’s actions at the foot of NZers who believed (and probably still believe) that National will do better for them than a Labour/Greens government, is more than a little patronising.

    • Yes – their privatisation agenda WAS part of their election platform in 2008 – for a group who love to wallow in personal responsibility I find it hilarious that suddenly National Party voters aren’t responsible for their choices now.

      Washing your hands of responsibility for prison beatings is patronising. You judge a country on how it treats its lowest, and NZ stinks right now.

    • A better balance of outcomes… for themselves. And no concern whatsoever for those in our country who are less fortunate than themselves.

      If the idea of privatisation of prisons didn’t enter into the voting decision process of National voters then they didn’t consider fully what they were voting for. A decision to remain ignorant does not excuse them from their actions.

      Anyway, it may come to bite them all, and the rest of us too, on their asses eventually. Those prisoners will eventually be let out. And if there’s no rehabilitation going on inside prisons, just brutality and ineffective management as a result of cost cutting, then the human beings who will be released will probably be more damaged and angry when they get out.

      That’s not safe for the rest of us. Including National voters.

      And if any of those National voters themselves end up locked up in a SERCO run prison they’ll know intimately what they voted for.

      Nope. I think Martyn has a bloody good point.

      • A revolving door for prisoners is an essential part of the business plan.
        When you replace a social service whose aim is less offending and less prisoners with a private concern whose business model is that of a hotel (i.e. all about occupancy) what could the result possibly be?

      • Most Nat supporters should be in prison. Get the IRD onto them and they’ll find the mass of tax evaders. Oh, oops, no one goes to jail for that except the poor.

  10. Hi Martyn,

    Lets’ just shove all these NatZ evil planeteers in the slammer for a week and make a movie about there hardship eh?

    Opps! sorry they will pay for the five star service then using our public money right?

  11. Bomber, it is wasted breath: so long as Jack National voter is alright, and his house price goes up, and there’s lot of work….well whatever happens to anybody but Jack is just fine and dandy. And don’t those nasty prisoners just deserve a beating or two?

  12. Given that more Maori are the “guests” of these privatized hell holes, should we be asking the Leaders of the Maori Tribes to step in and take permanent oversight?

    • Not good – the destruction of an empathetic society, the worshiping of greed, the increased poverty…it’s working shit for you too.

      Since 1984 we ‘lefties’ have been out of power.
      It sux…but it sux for the children and grandchildren of ‘righties’ even more – they’ll hate their parents and grandparents when they figure out how moronic capitalism is.

      But have fun with your tribal ignorance. Go team blue, yay!

    • politics is not a game of checkers “stephen” and it’s not the “left” that is losing, the victims of your sick ideology are

      250000 kids in poverty
      a generation of young people locked out of housing
      ecosystems destroyed by too much dairy farming
      people killed at work at a higher rate than the road toll
      taxpayers milked for more gst while assets are flogged off

      but obviously you’re too thick to care about people killed in prison or at work or lives destroyed by your thoughtless voting practices.

  13. I have no problem with private prisons. We have had huge problems in state run prisons, including all of the current issues Serco are working with, and worse. What I like about private provision is that if they fail they are shut down or lose the contract. When public sector providers fail, they are promoted!

    • your privatisation fantasy is bullshit, we can’t afford for them to fail as we already have a shortage of prisons and there isn’t exactly a bubbling market of prison operators ready to sign up

  14. When Labour was in government we had 1 privately run prison, the rest public. Even Labour admitted at the time that the privately run prison was the best operation in the country but they wanted to run it based on ideology and nothing else.

    So lets have a little less faux outrage and a little more reality.

  15. IN this slow transformation of ‘socialism’ into ‘corporatism’ – as promised by Adsell, – and identified by Mussolini as fascism – Prisons turning into ISIS type rule by rewarding the most vicious internal fascists, further breaks whatever protections ‘the State’ ever afforded those trapped in the penal system, thus losing positive grounds built in the community from a graduated ‘humanist’ reform type system.
    Which, in turn, will make the streets less safe again.
    Familiar ?
    IN the same way, our ‘corporate’ Government countenances international fascism by never mentioning Ass.Sec.State VictoriaNULAND’s USAMO/NATO backing of ‘pravy Sektor’ and Svoboda’ fascists in the American UKRAINE coup detat .

  16. Excellent. You sum it up with the words “we are a juvenile culture”. That is exactly correct, for many reasons, including that a “mature” culture would never have voted in this pack of clowns to be their “government”.

  17. Next due to open in your suburb, the SERCO party hire and catering service, staffed by cheap prison labour, also equipped with a great fun spirit, and always smiling.

  18. Why all the concern over crims beating the crap outta each other! Anyone would think that prison violence was something new

    Think about the huge number of refugees displaced in the middle east living in appalling conditions then ask yourselves why a bunch of tattooed losers is such a big deal.

  19. Legalise cannabis, and watch the prison population go down. As well as having far less violence.

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