Comments on: The NZ prison industrial complex continues to grow

By: Greywarbler

Greywarbler — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 08:58:26 +0000

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.

By: stephen lennon

stephen lennon — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 05:45:44 +0000

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

By: Bob the first also known as John.

Bob the first also known as John. — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 03:47:58 +0000

In reply to Bob the first.. It would be funny if it wasn't true but with your simple mind, I'm sure you are amused.

By: Bob the first.

Bob the first. — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 02:09:23 +0000

In reply to gordon walker. No need to be gross gw.

By: Bob the first.

Bob the first. — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 02:07:58 +0000

In reply to gordon walker. That’s so funny sir I thank for the amusement.

By: Bob the first also known as John.

Bob the first also known as John. — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 01:21:50 +0000

In reply to gordon walker. 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.

By: Pat O'Dea

Pat O'Dea — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 01:04:11 +0000

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.

By: gordon walker

gordon walker — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 23:44:49 +0000

In reply to Bob the first. Dont call me a liar bob .If the facts dont suit you and Luxon TOO FUCKEN BAD .

By: Greywarbler

Greywarbler — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 23:02:18 +0000

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

By: Greywarbler

Greywarbler — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 22:34:52 +0000

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.