Suicide rates for prisoners should shame us, it won’t, but it should
More than a dozen released from prison dead by suspected suicide since 2023 – coroners
The coroner’s office says 14 people died in suspected suicides, after their release from prison over the past three years.
Parolees have described being thrown into the outside world without support and say more psychological support is needed.
The Corrections Department told RNZ it did not record the number of suicides. Parolees say Corrections doesn’t record the data, because it would only make it look bad.
Those who spoke to RNZ painted a grim picture of life on the outside after leaving prison.
RNZ
We refuse to collect the suicide stats of former prisoners because the shock wave would demand action when we don’t want to deal with the reality of the punitive prison industrial industry we have built.
An empire of misery and suffering under the guise of punishment when the punishment is the loss of liberty.
We like it to be more in NZ than just the loss of liberty, we glisten with anticipation at the suffering we get to put these damaged men under.
They go in broken, they come out more broken.
We refuse to point blank to properly fund rehabilitation in our system, preferring to grind them down so that they explode once released.
The cynic in me says provide an actual cell where they can chose too kill themselves rather than pretend to care, but you would probably want to sponsor the death cell with a Monster Energy drink flavour.
This is what we is now, this is who we have become. A forever slathering herd demanding brutality to numb our own pain and sense of disconnection, finding unity only in the bloodlust of the Lynch mob.
Only rich people can afford to heal and buy justice.
