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Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis says a strong bond with Waikato Tainui is behind the success of a residential progamme for violent offenders.
Over the past decade more than 140 men serving sentences for violent offending have been supported by Tai Aroha, which is a16-week programme with Waikato-Tainui kawa and mātauranga Māori built into its daily operations.
Speaking at the anniversary event at Hukanui Amuri Marae in Huntly today, Mr Davis acknowledged the support of the local community and iwi in the delivery of the programme since it began in 2010.
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Editorial: No justification for Australia s appalling 501 deportations
16 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
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Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta on the 15-year-old deported from Australia. Video / Mark Mitchell
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EDITORIAL Despite our many common causes and shared endeavours, the much-vaunted Anzac relationship has been sorely tested, most notedly in recent times by the deportations of New Zealand-born criminals under Australia s notorious Section 501 of its Migration Act.
Behind the oft acclaimed transtasman camaraderie, there is a long history of appalling abuse. Exactly 100 years ago, in 1921, Australia banned New Zealand apples because of claims that fire blight, a disease that attacks apple and pear trees and rose bushes, could spread.
The percentage of assaults caused by gang members or affiliates was 58 per cent in the most recent financial year. Union boss Alan Whitely, president of the Corrections Association of New Zealand, said the Corrections Regulations 2005 legislation should be overhauled. He blamed a “softer approach”, and said a lack of discipline in prisons was behind the increasing assaults.
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Alan Whitely says a lack of discipline in prisons is to blame for the increasing assaults on guards. Whitely said Corrections staffers were afraid to properly discipline prisoners for fear of being investigated or disciplined themselves, and that there weren t enough adjudicators for the country’s prisons, meaning internal charges often came to nothing.