Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: Media Take: The price of imprisonment

Russell Brown

Tue, 30 May 2017 23:04:11 +1200

Tonight’s broadcast episode won’t be up until the morning, but for now here’s The extended “open floor” discussion with tonight’s Media Take panelists. There is conflict and a moving conclusion. 23 minutes of extended discussion with all the panelists .

It contains a fair bit of conflict, but Patricia, silent…

Russell Brown

Tue, 30 May 2017 17:45:04 +1200

This Politik story about Steven Joyce getting worried about the cost of the prison population and looking for ways to imprison fewer people for less time is interesting.

But, y'know, a good part of the current problem is directly down to his government's actions.

william blake

Tue, 30 May 2017 16:19:01 +1200

https://youtube.com/watch?v=QlPNRaXj2OQQ

'The house I live in' (2012) outlines how so many black Americans are incarcerated and the rise of entire towns that exist solely because of private prisons. A collision of twisted drug laws, racism and capitalism.

Kumara Republic

Tue, 30 May 2017 14:55:57 +1200

In America at least, its imprisonment rate has been attributed to a covert "New Jim Crow" agenda under the guise of the "War on Drugs" et al. Here in NZ, lock-em-upper Garth McVicar seems to be a covert "one law for all" type, going by his past rants, and his…

Josie McNaught

Tue, 30 May 2017 14:12:59 +1200

Or should they be given a second chance and become.... let's say an MP?

Hazel Heal

Tue, 30 May 2017 13:21:17 +1200

Add to the price of imprisonment, getting hep C as well as the sentence. If we accept, as I do, that we are not as different to Australia in just this one thing: we line up in stats around what we do know about prevalence, which isn't much, on the…

Rich of Observationz

Tue, 30 May 2017 12:58:55 +1200

So, should people go to jail for forging important identity documents?

Public Address

Tue, 30 May 2017 12:58:55 +1200

Discussion from blog post.