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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”.
The latest news is that the rehab program probation officers are managing caseloads of up to 70 inmates, versus the recommended 35 inmate maximum.
A station that gets 35 million in taxpayers funding now not only doesn’t have one Maori presenter in prime time but it doesn’t have any Maori news.
Not until bosses give back their profits to the generations of workers they stole them from will any redistribution of income be more than a subsidy to the bosses.
Recently I helped a friend go through his elderly mothers house after she had moved to assisted living.