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Analysis - The riot at Waikeria prison is only a symptom of a much larger problem, which is that parts of the incarceration system are failing at multiple points, Alexander Gillespie writes.
Waikeria prison Photo: RNZ / Dan Cook The Department of Corrections says 21 prisoners were involved - four surrendered but 17 are still refusing to co-operate. It is New Zealand's biggest prison riot in seven years - and it started with a tip. Corrections received a call on Tuesday at lunchtime, telling them a riot might soon break out at Waikeria Prison, near Te Awamutu. Staff took a look and could not find any issues. But Corrections chief executive Jeremy Lightfoot said matters escalated quickly. "A short time later, prisoners in an exercise yard in the top jail, the high security part of...
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Prisoner sues to stop pepper spray bombs that 'make grown men cry' 10 Dec, 2020 04:54 AM 5 minutes to read A woman going to the High Court to try to stop Corrections gassing inmates. Photo / 123RF A woman going to the High Court to try to stop Corrections gassing inmates. Photo / 123RF RNZ By Guyon Espiner, RNZ An asthmatic woman who was bombed with pepper spray in her Auckland prison cell is going to the High Court to stop Corrections gassing inmates in future. Karma Cripps, her partner Mihi Bassett and two other inmates were gassed inside their cells at Auckland Women's Prison, as revealed ...
The American company which makes it, Sabre, pushes its product using pictures of men who have been sprayed in the face wincing in pain. Sabre ranks its different pepper spray products using a thermometer graphic, which bursts into flame for their strongest spray, the Sabre Red Capsaicinoids - the one Corrections uses in New Zealand prisons. The company's promotional video says Cell Buster produces a fog of pepper spray, "which contaminates the cell and inflames the inmate's respiratory tract". It says that "the coughing and irritation produced by cell buster generally results in a much more c...
Unconstitutional. you said, in your words, wanted to attack the law, but the supreme court upheld the law's constitutionality. prosecutors from both sides of the aisle have priaised the law as the most effective tool government has to detect and actually recover public money lost to fraud sin. since 1986. that law brought in money into the treasury. most of it is because patriotic whistle blowers found the fraud and brought the case of the attention of the government. is the false claims act unconstitutional? >> no, senator. it's been upheld by the supreme court. >> do you consider the false c...