A NZ prison empire filled with shoplifters
Law changes expected to boost prison population over next decade
The prison population is expected to grow by more than a third in the next decade.
The annual Ministry of Justice projections also expect the number of people on remand – that is, behind bars but awaiting trial or sentencing – would leap 48 percent.
The report said there would be 15,200 prisoners in June 2036 – a 35 percent increase from 11,240 in February this year.
The numbers were in line with last year’s projections.
The report also said there would be fewer cases before the court, but more serious cases and longer sentences, due to government policy changes.
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith said the report’s predictions showed the government’s tough-on-crime approach was working.
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vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, number of this extra prison population is going to come from shoplifters, not serious criminals.
We are going to build a prison empire filled with shoplifters!
Prison is a corrupt, violent and underfunded system that damages people.
How on earth will shoplifters being mashed inside our corrupt, violent and underfunded prison system heal or rehabilitate those shoplifters?
At some stage we need a conversation about our counter productive revenge fantasies.
Throwing all this people into prison for shoplifting is fucking insane.
This is what we is now. This is what we have become.
Half the prison population are on remand .That means that they have not been found guilty of any crime yet they are locked up for years in some cases waiting for a court case or for the police to trump up a charge of some sort .What happened to a fair trial or being innocent till proven guilty
Goldsmith – what a typical, smug, cruel, heartless, dumb RW monster he is! So how about a prison for the embezzlers, tax fraudsters, those who go bankrupt, after leading the life of ‘Riley’ and leave their IRD debt and contractors/customers unpaid! Or is that okay since they didn’t mean to – BS! So most Europeans seem to be exempt from punishment even after deliberately hiding much of their wealth and/or fleeing overseas! How is this not corruption? It’s way too easy to go bankrupt etc. in NZ just look at the Du Val collapse! Bet they are still enjoying a fruitful life! One rule for the wealthy and another for the ‘remainder’! Surely no-one with moral values would be supporting this obnoxious CoC!
Na white collar crime is all good .They can scam millions and get home detention where they can get on the lap top and run another scam and their friends can come around and have a few wines and a bbq .Then they all donate to nationals election fund .