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Simon Bridge’s previous job was as Criminal Prosecutor, Tauranga. He saw his job as getting as many “bad guys” as possible locked up for as long as possible. But he doesn’t know much about what motivates people to reoffend.
People may have noticed a subtle change in the wording of the latest official publicity about the proposed $3.5b light rail to Auckland International Airport project. Mysteriously the word airport’ has been airbrushed out. ‘City to Airport’ has been replaced with ‘City to Māngere’. What can this mean?
We have agreed to keep the writer of this post anonymous to prevent WINZ from punishing them.
Arthur Taylor is TDBs Prisoner Rights Blogger currently inside prison. He was not allowed to present at the recent Justice Summit.
I just picked up this message from my cousin. I’ve taken out all the family stuff. but I’ve left in her comments about the care my aunty received while she was at Auckland Hospital. I’m posting this because of all the unnecessary grief Papa Carl Perkins and his whanau went through while he was at Waikato Hospital.
I hope you are aware of Mike Treen’s ordeal. He, along with other passengers and crew on the Freedom Flotilla boat Al Awda, was hijacked in international waters and forced to go to Israel. Mike was brutally tasered, while being arrested. Why has there been no public and political outrage here in NZ? What is the matter with us?
As every major global crisis of capitalism has proven, capitalists must destroy the previous generation of sunk capital to revive profits and restore accumulation of wealth in their own pockets. Countries are laid waste, populations are wiped out in their multi-millions, and nature is sacrificed to the scramble for more carbon and more profit.
Corrections Dept negligence and the double bunking policy caused this by giving rapist & Black Power member William Katipa his opportunities . No Corrections officer has been held accountable & 50 potential further victims are not being individually notified .
I had a productive session this week with Prison Inspector Jason Eakins regarding some recent issues I raised with the Inspectorate .
The stark contrast of two governments to the illegal hijacking of flotilla boats & their citizens