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Prison guards threaten pepper spray moments after suicide attempt


Prison guards threaten pepper spray moments after suicide attempt
Guyon Espiner
Warning: This article discusses suicide and could be distressing for some people.
Prison guards threatened to pepper spray an inmate and then went on to put her in a headlock minutes after she d attempted suicide, documents released to RNZ show.
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Mihi Bassett
Ten days before Mihi Bassett attempted suicide she asked guards to give her poison but was assessed as not at risk Photo: RNZ.Claire Eastham-Farrelly/ Vinay Ranchhod
Auckland Women s Prison inmate Mihi Bassett tried to kill herself in January last year, after Corrections unlawfully held her for months in a segregation unit, known as the pound. ....

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New Zealand Chief Ombudsman finds prison breached Torture Convention - JURIST - News


December 15, 2020 09:56:29 am
The report follows an eight-day unannounced inspection of Auckland Prison, the country’s only maximum-security facility, which took place between January and February. Boshier wrote the report under the Crimes of Torture Act 1989 in his capacity as a National Preventive Mechanism. Although he noted that “there were some good practices” employed at the prison, he also found “some practices that required improvement and others that were of significant concern,” most notably two breaches of the Convention.
The first breach concerns “the unwarranted use of pepper spray on a prisoner” that Boshier’s inspectors reviewed CCTV footage of. According to the report, the footage showed that a prisoner was pepper-sprayed after “moving some of his personal belongings from his cell to the adjacent yard before setting off the sprinkler, and then standing in the yard waiting for staff response.” He complied with staff response, an order to ....

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