https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/prison-rethink-required Every few days another piece of research evidence or personal testimony heaps criticism on the ineffectiveness of our prison system in reducing reoffending. The latest is Corrections’ failure to meet its 2017 goal of reducing reoffending by 25%: there has only been a 4.5% reduction. Taxpayers now spend aContinue Reading

‘Christchurch’s youngest don’, sex offender Tasi Selini, on the run from police http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/83792546/christchurchs-youngest-don-tasi-selini-on-the-run-from-police In 2009, he allegedly kidnapped a man – driving him around Christchurch for several hours assaulting him, stabbing him in the leg with a knife and abandoning him. A witness at trial gave evidence of Selini referringContinue Reading