The NZ prison industrial complex continues to grow
Luxon calls growing prisoner numbers ‘a good thing’ as police target slips Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has declared the soaring…
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New report of violence in prison highlights how damaged our spiteful social policy has become
While we treat beneficiaries as subhuman, the damage we allow to continue within our prison system has become endemic…
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GUEST BLOG: Alex Birchall – Not Māori Prisons, No Prisons! A Response to Duncan Garner
What of those who are alienated from any family or have no family left (one in five Māori report zero tribal affiliation, and many other affiliates themselves have little connection to the tribal structure)? How would this help address the long-lasting social harms and stigmas that come from having been an inmate, even for a very short time? How would they be able to meet and having meaningful relationships with whanau from inside a prison?
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The shocking truth behind why Correction’s rehabilitation rates are failing
The shocking truth behind why Correction’s rehabilitation rates are failing is a case study in how ‘get-tough-on-crime’ rhetoric and a lynch mob electorate more focused on punishment are creating horrifically counter productive ends for our wider society.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Horror stories inside Auckland Woman’s Prison
The fact that they have woman vs. child offenders, including extremely violent ones (including those that have committed a range of serious sex crimes) being housed with youths, together- rather than separate, should be of concern to all of us.
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The real issues of sex offenders in the community that Q+A totally miss
Q+A this morning was a disgrace. They had Crusher Collins on to do her usual tough on crime routine with Sex Offenders and Q+A allowed her to scare monger.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Prison Suicide Stats
It’s an alarming statistic and I can well believe it .
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – A History of Smuggling Tobacco into NZ prisons
I, as did many frontline prison guards, knew the absence of tobacco would raise the level of violence that it would bring. Your risk of being assaulted/injured would outweigh the health benefits. That’s why the smoking in a prison context is fundamentally different than anywhere else.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Just another fight in prison
I’m sad to say, that the five month (must be a world record in a maximum security prison) hiatus from a violent incident on this landing ended yesterday morning.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – suicide inside prison
If you were to listen to the tripe trotted out by corrections spin doctors (which cost you tens of millions) you could be forgiven to thinking all was rosy behind prison walls.