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MORNING REPORT/RNZ A legal expert says he is disappointed the Corrections Minister won't acknowledge a judge's finding that treatment of Auckland Women's Prison inmates was degrading, cruel and inhumane. As a boy, Rue-Jade Morgan was given shandy and made to wear a dog collar and got used to seeing his alcoholic, drug-addicted mother lying on the floor in a bruised pulp. As a teen, Morgan was told he wasn’t crying properly so banged his head against the wall so hard that he gave himself trauma which affects his speech to this day, and was given only newspaper to wipe up the blood.

Corrections has defended the implementation of its Māori prison reduction strategy to MPs, saying that despite delays caused by Covid-19, it was on track.

Corrections defends slow progress on Hōkai Rangi strategy © RNZ / Claire Eastham-Farrelly The Corrections official responsible for implementing its Hōkai Rangi strategy says more time is needed for the programme to work effectively. A report by the Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier into the country's only maximum security prison Paremoremo revealed that prisoners were being locked in cells for up to 23 hours a day, despite opening up new units for rehabilitation. He also found two breaches of the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Puni...