Another sickening story of brutal prison rape because of our disgusting double bunk policy in this country…
Prison rapist Benjamin Goundar sentenced for sexually abusing cellmate
The victim of the current offending said Goundar raped him or forced him to perform oral sex nearly every night from mid October 2017 to early January 2018.
He made death threats to dissuade the victim from moving to a different cell, and on one occasion pulled a shank on him.
The abuse only stopped when an anonymous call was made to Crimestoppers, and Goundar was moved out of the unit.
…which follows another sickening story of brutal prison rape because of our disgusting double bunk policy in this country…
A convicted rapist was able to prey on fellow prisoners after an alert banning him from sharing a cell was turned off by staff.
William Katipa, 52, raped three men while in prison in New Zealand. Two of the men were in their 20s, one was a teenager.
…the damaged manner in which the NZ population has been conditioned by mainstream media and vile politicians singing tough on crime rhetoric has created so many counter productive outcomes in our prison system that we are now the problem.
When you allow Sensible Sentencing Trust hate or punitive #MeToo lynch mobs to decide punishment minus mercy, you get a justice system that is no longer social policy, it’s weaponised incarceration where the welfare of prisoners is the lowest of concerns.
Are you ready for the icing on this cake of hate?
THE ASSAULT BY KATIPA CAME AFTER THE CONVICTION OF STEPHEN MARK GOTTY, 57, WHO SEXUALLY ASSAULTED A 19-YEAR-OLD WHILE DOUBLE-BUNKED IN MT EDEN PRISON. GOTTY RECEIVED A SENTENCE OF PREVENTIVE DETENTION WITH A MINIMUM NINE YEARS IN PRISON.
THE INCIDENTS LED TO A REVIEW OF THE DOUBLE-BUNKING POLICY THROUGHOUT THE PRISON SYSTEM.
THE REVIEW FOUND KATIPA’S ATTACKS WERE NOT AS A RESULT OF PROBLEMS WITH THE DOUBLE-BUNKING SYSTEM BUT “STAFF PERFORMANCE FAILURE”.
BEALES SAID THE REVIEW OF THE SACRA SYSTEM FOUND THE TOOL WAS WORKING – BUT IT WASN’T BEING USED WITH CONSISTENCY ACROSS THE PRISON NETWORK.
THE REPORT INTO USE OF THE SACRA SYSTEM, RELEASED THROUGH THE OFFICIAL INFORMATION ACT, SHOWED CORRECTIONS STAFF DIDN’T UNDERSTAND HOW IT WAS MEANT TO BE USED AND WOULD SOMETIMES PLACE INMATES IN CELLS WITH OTHER – THEN DO AN ASSESSMENT TO SEE IF THEY SHOULD BE HOUSED WITH SOMEONE ELSE.
ABOUT THREE-QUARTERS OF THE ASSESSMENTS WERE DONE ON TIME, THE REPORT SHOWED.
THE ASSESSMENTS WERE ALSO DELAYED IF THERE WERE STAFF SHORTAGE AND IN OTHER CASES, CORRECTIONS OFFICERS TALKED INMATES INTO BEING DOUBLE-BUNKED.
CORRECTIONS STAFF ALSO SHOWED CONFUSION OVER THE NTDB (NOT TO DOUBLE BUNK) WARNING, WITH THE REVIEW STATING THEY WERE UNSURE WHO WAS MEANT TO BE PLACING THE WARNING ON THE SYSTEM OR EVEN WHEN THEY WERE OBLIGED TO DO SO.
THERE WAS ALSO RISK ATTACHED TO THE 68 DIFFERENT TYPES OF ALERTS WITH NO GUIDELINES FOR REFERENCE AND CONFUSED STAFF AS A RESULT.
…Corrections staff had no fucking idea of how to use the system that rated prisoners on safety – their incompetence and total lack of training means they could be creating dozens of rapes every week.
I know, I know, these are only prisoners raping each other, but surely no NZer can pretend to be proud of the hate pus pit our State sanctioned double bunked rape pens have become?
We have built a prison industry on spite and cheap vengeance, our inability to acknowledge that is causing more social damage and the fact National banned prisoners from voting is a means of silencing that damage from ever being rectified.
We have lost ourselves when this is the outcome. Feel shame NZ, feel terrible shame at our collective blood lust. This stopped being about justice a long time ago. This is about our petty tyranny now.
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“Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (as enacted in the UK by the Human Rights Act 1998) is the only absolute right (other articles are ‘limited’ or ‘qualified’) and it states that ‘No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment’.”
I miss the wise council of the late, great Peter Williams QC who started the Howard League for Penal Reform. Pete would have raged about these crimes.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/advances-in-psychiatric-treatment/article/article-3-of-the-human-rights-act-1998-and-the-treatment-of-prisoners/2BC761D7094E7BC7DDC7F93E197FC79B
Double bunking is a form of torture over and above the loss of freedom: incarceration. What sh*t party brought this obscenity in!? We really do have monsters running the show in government as well as the Pens.
I’m afraid anger is the only reasonable reaction.
double bunking is enabling rape. isnt that a crime?
and no you cant tell who the sexual predators are.
this from an australian study illustrates that:
…”an incident whereby a young prisoner was doubled up with an older relative. The elder relative sexually assaulted the young prisoner in the doubled up cell.” p51
https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/10978/
I recognise your article by your sensational headline. Corner a NZer and they’re either pretty damn decent or go crazy.
Typically some pen pushers have created a system that not only seems complicated, not working and impractical (aka not taking account of staff/cell shortages) they failed to work out, “THERE WAS ALSO RISK ATTACHED TO THE 68 DIFFERENT TYPES OF ALERTS WITH NO GUIDELINES FOR REFERENCE AND CONFUSED STAFF AS A RESULT.”
Firstly in my view people under 24 should not be allowed in prisons for adults but special detention centres for their crimes with rehabilitation/education being a priority… a lot of the rape victims were teenagers which is even more despicable (aka preying on the youth) and setting them up for decades of future problems with law, crime, mental health, and authority.
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