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The investigation, which began in July last year, was launched after an inmate allegedly arranged the trafficking of drugs into New Zealand using illicit cell phones. From March 23, until May 13 last year, no visitors were allowed into the prison, due to New Zealand being under alert levels 3 and 4. The most common items of contraband found during lockdown at Rimutaka Prison were communication devices. Responding to questions from Stuff, prison director Viv Whelan said while visitors could not smuggle in contraband in during the lockdown there were other methods, concealed on a prisoner�...

CORRECTIONS/SUPPLIED One of the Urban Kai Network's five farms at Rimutaka Prison. Common Unity founder Julia Milne co-ordinates the project, which produces meals for children at four schools and for Women's Refuge. More than 30 inmates, seven charity staff and a base of 300 volunteers harvest the crops, which are made into meals at their community kitchen and base, the ReMakery, in the Lower Hutt suburb of Fairfield, and distributed around the community to at least four schools and Women's Refuge. Common Unity founder Julia Milne said last year, 40,000 meals were produced as a result of th...

Said a word, never objected, that's the kind of lady she was, and wrote about that program in the book. but she and i clashed. we talked about her interest in literacy, adult literacy. she and i took a trip to kentucky together, a place where a lot of adult literacy programs were going on.re on the way back, she said, you were very polite but you don't fully approve of this, do you? you know the way she spoke, and that kind of way, wonderful.on i said, no, i fully approve of adult literacy, i just think we should get it right the first time, you know? that is what schools are for. you understa...