Arthur Taylor: Is Public Safety being endangered by Parole Board/Corrections Failings?











Arthur Taylor is The Daily Blog’s Prisoner Rights Blogger who is currently serving time inside prison.











Arthur Taylor is The Daily Blog’s Prisoner Rights Blogger who is currently serving time inside prison.

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It’s ok…I found your record on the Radio NZ website:
“After spending 38 of the last 44 years in prison, amassing 152 convictions along the way for fraud, burglary, aggravated robbery, kidnapping, firearms offences, drugs offences and escaping from custody”.
Your human rights seem very important to you. You ever consider the human rights of the people you offended against?
What are you in for?
“If it was a business that was succeeding that would be OK…”
It is – and it’s playing a long game with very deep pockets.
Should you ever fall alive into the clutches of WINZ, you’ll find that your experience with the parole board will be invaluable. They’re just the same.
It’s all about pleasing the spiteful, righteous segment of the voting community that raves about throwing away keys – until they’re caught with sticky fingers in the till.
I hope there’s still honour among thieves because there’s damn’ all out here.