Ministry of Justice warns NZ First-National coalition commitment risks doubling prison population
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- The National-NZ First coalition agreement committed to ending concurrent sentences for offences committed while on parole, bail, or in custody.
- The Ministry of Justice estimated this could double the prison population, so the Government has opted to ‘encourage’ ending concurrent sentences as a first step.
- Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith has previously said the Government would still honour the coalition commitment during this parliamentary term, but last night he said: “We’ll see.”
Honouring a National-NZ First coalition commitment could put an additional 10,000 people in prison for mostly minor offences, more than doubling the prison population in what Ministry of Justice officials describe as “not a feasible option”.
The estimate is contained in the ministry’s regulatory impact statement (Ris) on the suite of sentencing reforms that Cabinet has now signed off, with a bill enabling them to be introduced to Parliament this week.
Measures include capping sentencing discounts at 40%, limits on discounts for youth and remorse, a sliding scale for pleading guilty, and “encouraging the use of cumulative sentencing for offences committed while on bail, in custody, or on parole”.
In NZ we have angry Māori and Pacifica youth attacking dairy’s and service stations fighting exploited migrant workers from China and India while the white suburbs clutch their pearls and scream ‘something must be done’
The Political Right want a war on crime because their fearful reactionary voting base are always terrified by the Media’s lust with crime porn for click bait.
National are so ideologically hateful they will add 10 000 into NZ prisons for minor offences.
Their toxic cocktail of tough on crime policy will see our prison population explode by 10 000 for mostly minor crimes which will cost billions more while creating all the conditions for a massive prison riots and mass prison privatisation.
In NZ we are not interested in rehabilitating criminals or healing broken men, we want them to suffer and this desire to make the prisoners suffer is leading to counterproductive social policy that will only make issues worse.
To put 10 000 more into our broken prison system and think that is a solution gives you real insight into how ideologically hateful the Political Right have become.
Ain’t it funny how the factories doors close?‘Round the time that the school doors close?‘Round the time that a hundred thousand jail cellsOpen up to greet you like the reaper?
System of a Down – Ashes in the Fall
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It is all part of the Natzo war on the poor. It starts with health, housing and education cuts, for guess who…then proceeds to boot camp and then private prison. There is a clamp down happening thanks to some genuinely vindictive nasty bastards in CoC and their supporters of course.
Time to give them a serve back.
Will be money $$$ well spent at $200k per prisoner per year.
Good luck with that as the new prison has been delayed a year so where are they going to put 10k .The new prison will only hold 600 so there is a short fall of 9400 beds at a cost of at least 100k per bed to build and 6 years to get them built at least .There goes the wellington long tunnel
Mmm, maybe better to spend $50k on rehabilitation $100k on health and $50k on education.
Yes uncle the 9.5 billion needed for the 9500 extra cells would pay for a large amount of housing and rehab .We all know there is very little rehab in prisons and recently this government cut all culture based rehab courses in jails on race grounds even though they continue to tell us the majority of prisoners are brown .
UK , USA , AUSTRALIA and even NZ when two decades of massesd research shows harsher sentences and penalties are NOT a crime deterrent of course the CoC think it’s a great idea.
Prison is not a ‘ correctional’ facilty nor rehabilitation and when this government has cut and even ended funding to the agencies who do the ‘ rehabilitation ‘ or ‘ reintegration ‘ it’s all a lie.
Sounds good as an election promise though.
https://www.transformjustice.org.uk/news-insight/the-myth-that-tough-sanctions-deter-crime-revealed-by-the-sentencing-council/
https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2023/09/21/being-tough-on-crime-is-easy-but-doesnt-work.html
https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2020/07/do-harsher-punishments-deter-crime
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