The astounding decision by the National Government to quietly dump reoffending rates as a measurement of the private prison empire they have built was another sad moment in the failed neoliberal social experiments the National Party champion…
House Block one in Wiri has become infested with gang members, i.e. K.C’s Killer Beez and Crips, and they are causing the same problems they cause elsewhere if they have the numbers, jumping other prisoners, 3 or 4 on one, Tea Leafing (stealing other prisoners property), organizing fights, pressuring others to join in fight clubs and generally trying to run the place to their own ends.
America is light years ahead of NZ on legalised cannabis with a fully regulated and taxed market, AND they are now ahead of us by banning the corporate cancer that is private prisons…
The obscenity of Australia’s detention camp in Naru is surfacing again. Refugee children driven to suicide because of sexual abuse meted out by guards is about as grim as it gets, but the true horror of what is happening in Australia has infected NZ as well.
Talking with our sources inside prison, here is what happened…