GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Starving Prisoners scavenging from bins inside prison
Our rations are meagre enough on Corrections $4 per day food budget without this carry on.
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EXCLUSIVE: Arthur Taylor – Prison Suicide Cover Up
Corrections NZ are hiding a surge in prison suicides – The Daily Blog’s Prisoner Rights Blogger and current inmate Arthur Taylor critiques the cover up.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Xmas mail, New Serco allegations, and Peter Leitch
I am reliably informed that the I.D.U. rate (positive drug test results) at SERCO Wiri is at least 25%….i.e. one quarter of the prisoners have tested positive for drug use
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – What Corrections aren’t telling the public about Phillip Smith
You will probably recall lifer Phillip Smith escaping to Brazil on 6.11.2014. That escape deeply embarassed Corrections senior management and their minister Sam Lotu – Iga.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Another woman left rotting in prison
Anne is in her fifties, a first offender and in jail for drugs. She has been up to the parole board three times and been turned down, because she “hasn’t done programs”.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – ANOTHER ATTACK BY CORRECTIONS ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Read my affadavit that has been filed in support of Iniative , and you’ll see this sort of behaviour is absolutely typical of Corrections response to exposure and criticism.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – the most important constitutional law hearing to be held in over 25 years
Next week – 26 & 27 October, a Full Bench of 5 judges of the Court of Appeal will hear the Crown’s appeal against Justice Heath’s Decision on 24 July 2015 to grant a Declaration of Inconsistency on the Act of Parliament which bans prisoner voting. Top silk Victoria Casey QC represents the Speaker.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Jailhouse narks
Spent a very interesting Thursday in the High Court before Justice Fogarty trying to get the name suppression of Secret Witness C who was a pivotal witness in the Tamihere trial lifted.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – How racist are NZ prisons?
You’ve all heard about the massive over representation of Maori in prisons, but you may not know the further you go into the Belly of the Beast the higher that representation gets.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – rehabilitation programs are a scam
It’s hard to believe isn’t it… CareNZ continues to take public funds to provide under-resourced programmes for Prisoners and continues to get rid of qualified, experienced Counsellors at the cost of thousands of taxpayers dollars.