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There are good people here in Merivale. People who are resilient and proud and all embracing. They take you as you come and expect nothing in return besides the acceptance of who they are – loyal, passionate, and intimately connected to their community. I move amongst these people. I have come to know them well and they bring colour and light to my World.
The call for an “urgent nationwide enquiry into mental health services” by Green Party Health spokesperson Kevin Hague comes 13 months after the death of our son, Nicky Stevens, while in the ‘care’ of Waikato DHB – and 20 years after the second Mason Report into NZ’s antiquated mental health services.
The computer room got flooded with sewage overnight from the toilets , so no education classes. Ditto for the indoor recreation area, passage to the outdoor recreation area, outside the kitchen serving hatch, laundry room and PCO Phil Cullen’s office
The global rich have been caught with their blind trusts exposed and this is supposed to tell us something, but what?
The Head Office of Corrections is Mayfair House at 44 The Terrace Wellington. Many frontline Corrections staff, and most prisoners, refer to it as ‘Bullshit House’, much the same as many cops refer to their Wellington headquarters as ‘Bullshit Palace’.
I wrote this initially because I thought it was an important story to tell, but I asked Russell to publish it anonymously on my behalf. A decision driven primarily by fear. Fear or scrutiny, fear of judgement, fear of the sense of shame that still lingered.
“This post is adapted from an oral submission by Dr Rhys Jones on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), outlining the significant risks to health and equity. He asserts that it would be grossly irresponsible of the New Zealand Government to ratify the agreement without a comprehensive, independent health impact assessment, including a formal equity analysis.”
Staff subsequently have spread rumours that if inmates contact the League , it will go against them at their Parole hearing .
The hypocrisy is absolutely breathtaking and shows the lack of moral compass of this “government”.