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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. © Provided by Radio New Zealand 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 Bass...

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 ...