imprisonment Archive

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  Never mind the facts, give us an opinion! - by David Clendon

  
  
  
  It seems the Far-From-Sensible Sentencing Trust is getting set to launch into another round of tub-thumping about how we are all too soft on crime; let’s lock ‘em up and throw away the key before we’re all murdered in our beds; it’s a jungle out there; etc, etc. Apparently they commissioned some research in May “…on [...] read more
  July 13, 2011 9:18 am - 7 Comments
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  Inequality in Aotearoa: imprisonment - by Metiria Turei

  
  
  
  We are debating the Future Focus bill in Parliament as I write. We know that last time there was work testing for sole parents there were serious concerns about child welfare. The bill denigrates the value of education for sole parents and their children. The bill is punitive, discriminatory and will massively increase poverty, increasing [...] read more
  August 17, 2010 5:50 pm - 75 Comments
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  Crates, cubicles and containers - by David Clendon

  
  
  
  Aotearoa / New Zealand, the country where some would have us think that it is okay to keep pigs locked up in crates, cows locked up in cubicles, and human beings locked up in glorified shipping containers. read more
  February 4, 2010 4:19 pm - 31 Comments
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  Three strikes and you’re out of ideas - by frog

  
  
  
  The Herald is rightly pouring cold water on Rodney Hide’s lock ‘em up rhetoric.  The “three strikes and you’re out” penal policy was a good line in an election pitch but unless its application is narrowed in the small print of the policy it would require a fearful increase in prison accommodation. New Zealand has [...] read more
  November 13, 2008 2:48 pm - 91 Comments