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 prison population to be a “good thing”, characterising it as the price of restoring law and order
He also conceded the government was running behind on its promise to boost police numbers by 500, despite previously insisting the target would be met by next week.
Facing reporters at Parliament on Tuesday, Luxon was questioned about the prison muster, which has surged to record highs and is now nearing 11,000 inmates.
“Absolutely, that’s a good thing,” he said. “Yep, good thing.”
Luxon said the coalition would not ease up on criminals or adjust policy simply because the costs were rising.
“I understand… the financial implication of… restoring law and order in New Zealand, but we make no apologies about that,” he said.
“The cost will be what the cost will be.”
Luxon doesn’t give a fuck about the cost and he doesn’t give a fuck about the ongoing cost.
His basic bitch rational is ‘lock them up and throw away the key’.
Media sell crime clickbait porn to the masses.
Young Māori and Pacifica abuse and attack exploited Chinese and Indian workers in sweat shop dairies and bottle shops while the white middle classes clutch their pearls in the suburbs and scream, ‘something must be done’ and Luxon is there to do the doing.
We don’t care that damaged men go into under resourced, corrupt and violent prisons and come out as monsters to commit worse crimes, we just don’t care.
And neither does Luxon. He will gladly lock anyone up for anything if it makes you feel the illusion of safety.
We banned gang patches, but gang crime is through the roof.
The illusion of safety is the perfect handmaiden to the clickbait of crime fear.
Our prisons dehumanise and damage men who are already dehumanised and damaged. They then put them out with fuck all support and we look confused when they cause more terrible crime.
We are a low horizon imagination people fixated on cow udders, undiagnosed alcoholism and a domestic violence rate that is civil war level. We hate anyone smarter than us, despise intellectualism and have our petty bigotries manipulated by the right with an ease and fission that is almost sexual.
The majority want prisoners to not only have their liberty taken from them, but we want to make them suffer as well.
There is a large chunk who want to see prisoners chained together in orange jumpsuits breaking rocks while singing ‘Old Man River”.
That is who we is.
That is what we have become.
A nation of gauche hatreds and petty malice, ruddy faced with fury and confusion, wearing cow shit splattered slippers and banjo twanging cultural insulation.
We would gladly burn books if we had any idea where the library was.
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Big problems coming for jails .An inside staff member tells me that they are not replacing staff who leave .Three members have left her team and they are not being replaced .She had a meeting with a manager from Wellington last week who could not do basic maths .There are 3 cell blocks per unit where she works .Each has 40 cells .Each cell has 2 prisoners .The manager said that equaled 120 prisoners so they did not need replacement staff or any extra staff .When the staff member pointed out that there are 240 prisoners in the unit the manager told her she was wrong there is only 120 cells so there can only be 120 prisoners .Once again the staff member pointed out there are two prisoners per cell so there must be 240 prisoners in total .Once again the manager said she was incorrect .
When we look at the minister in charge we can see the problem starts at the very top as he is as thick as pig shit .
On the minister he promised he would step down if we did not have 500 extra police by the end of last month .We have only 167 and they way the top brass are culling themselves we will have less than when he started .Will he keep his promise or will Luxon sweep him under the rug which has a massive mound of shit under it now there may not be room for him .
gw making things up again, this example may be a personal best.
Dont call me a liar bob .If the facts dont suit you and Luxon TOO FUCKEN BAD .
The issue is Bob loves to fawn all over Luxon and anything right wing and therefore only believes in “alternative facts” and will only ever see things through a single blue lens. Actually, he has never provided facts to support his narrative and never will. The fact is Luxon, as pointed out by Martyn is happy to spend millions and millions on prisons, yet not prepared to spend the same amount on healthcare, nurses, doctors, teachers, police and firemen etc . There will always be crime and locking people up without rehabilitation will be akin to throwing money on a bonfire. That should worry the voting public of NZ.
That’s so funny sir I thank for the amusement.
It would be funny if it wasn’t true but with your simple mind, I’m sure you are amused.
No need to be gross gw.
Luxon’s, “Yep, good thing”! =“Yep is a very common alternative to yes, but is only used informally, among people you know well, and might be frowned upon in formal settings” – so like facing reporters and the nation? Dear me, how our standards have plummeted. Luxon seriously can’t comprehend that he has brought NZ to its knees and our country is “Stuffed”. Now I like that word =“the country is in a very bad situation, is in trouble, or is broken/ruined”! How can he be so blatantly racist and get away with it? I know – our pathetic RW media and sheeples.
What’s that saying when you want to disagree with apparent facts; ‘I have better figures (or whatever the subject). It seems that the staffing is bound to the number of occupied cells. So put triple bunks into each cell, the staffing remains the same. The manager isn’t likely to spell that out as its irrational and obviously wrong and unviable for good practice, so it’s easier to just repeat the appropriate code adopted as explanation for staffing ratios.
Great – ‘beat’ poetry>>>>>>
A nation of gauche hatreds and petty malice, ruddy faced with fury and confusion, wearing cow shit splattered slippers and banjo twanging cultural insulation.
We would gladly burn books if we had any idea where the library was.
Makes you want to spit but we have to keep the energy up as well as the reading; some ideas for a new action sport to build esprit de corps.
Tap Dogs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRUdvu3Qo-E 2.40m
0.40m https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRpbV1YwafI
The NZ Prison Industrial Complex continues to grow
By Martyn Bradbury -November 23, 2025
And Christopher Luxon is happy with that, this should be a worry for all of us.
The Prison Industrila Complex is a sword kept hanging above all our heads.
More than just dealing with the human wreckage from unchecked inhuman neoliberalism which increases inequality and trashes societery for the benefit of a wealthy elite.
This machinery of repression can be quickly repurposed.
In times of system wide crisis, the Prison industrial complex can and has served a more sinister purpose.
“….damaged men go into under resourced, corrupt and violent prisons and come out as monsters to commit worse crimes” Martyn Bradbury
Monstrous societies have a use of monsters.
In times of crisis, the prisoners are released often with a promise of pardons, in exchange for being recruited to be turned on the state’s enemies. The infrastructure of the prison industrial complex is not left standing idle, empty prisons are quickly repurposed to confine political prisoners and other perceived enemies of the state, often to the point of inhuman overcrowding. Over night, prison guards turn into human rights abusers, overcrowded prisons turn into concentration camps.
As long as that machinery exists that potential exists.
Prison is no holiday camp unless you’re a gang member with form or just so unhinged that you’ll commit any type of violence to prove to other inmates that you’re not to be fucked with and then your holiday usually turns south because there always someone around the corner ready to take advantage of your complacency, It’s a tough and precarious lifestyle with a large number of mental health, among the prison population who are victimized again by inmates. It’s a sad affair
Random thoughts on criminality and shallowness of society.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/579523/judge-condemns-persistent-violence-as-shamah-riley-jailed-over-nelson-supermarket-assault
Spaced out, human theatre, Gormenghast.
What’s it all about? Do we remember what being human is or can, even should be?
Unco, sham, criminality at all levels, and law changing to limit it, Anne Perry books about London Victorian criminality.
1902s play JM Barrie The Admirable Crichton who knew how to organiise for living each day, doing it oneself.
1957 Film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qaqmb-i1qrA with Kenneth More 1.33.27
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Criminal gangs making recruits commit crime, doing it for ones3elf whatever, that is something they need to know.
Corporate accounting, double entry, phishing, scamming, are indoor gangs.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies
Lord of the Flies is the 1954 debut novel of British author William Golding. The plot concerns a group of prepubescent British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempts to govern themselves that led to a descent into savagery. The novel’s themes include morality, leadership, and the tension between civility and chaos.