GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – a good news story from prison
The public don’t often hear good news stories about prisoners,so here is one. We’ve got a guy called ‘Roto’ [we call him that because he comes from Rotorua] on our landing – he’s just come to us from eighteen months in D.Block, where he used to be the laundry man.
Here, he is the Pare max’ Receiving Office cleaner [a very trusted job]. He’s got an eleven year old niece who is on dialysis awaiting a kidney transplant. Maori have to wait a lot longer as the organ pool is not as large for them. A couple of weeks ago he asked how he could go about donating a kidney to his niece. We found the Prison helpful in doing the necessary tests to establish compatibility. The problem was with Starship Hospital, who apparently have a policy not to accept prison donors. We’re in the process of trying to get around this.
We’ll keep you updated on any developments.
For both of them I hope he comes through the tests for Hepatitis and AIDS and other nasties.
Roto sounds like a decent bloke.
Starship Hospital need to get their priorities right if Roto is a match. The risk of him doing a runner are Nil, that’s his Whanau, regardless of what he’s done.