Jan 18, 2021 | Politics & Society
The COVID-19 pandemic has created challenges in prisons and for prisoner rights all over the world. Prison crowding and sub-standard living conditions have created ideal breeding grounds for the virus. How has the pandemic threatened the human rights of the...
Nov 26, 2019 | Politics & Society
A few days ago, Justice Minister Andrew Little announced plans to change the current law on prisoner voting rights in time for the 2020 election to allow prisoners serving sentences of three years or under to vote. This change comes after a landmark decision by the...
May 1, 2019 | Politics & Society
A recent report investigating the state of three New Zealand prisons found that low staffing numbers were straining conditions. The Corrections Office of the Inspectorate report into the Rimutaka, Otago, and Auckland South prisons also highlighted overcrowding,...
Sep 6, 2018 | Politics & Society
By Calvin Schermerhorn Calvin Schermerhorn argues the North American prisoner strike exposes an age old American reliance on forced labor. Prisoners in 17 states and several Canadian provinces are on strike in protest of prison labor conditions. Their demonstrations...
May 15, 2018 | Politics & Society
What would the world be like without prisons? Julianne Evans speaks with Tracey McIntosh Co-Head of the School of Te Wananga o Waipapa, Māori Studies and Pacific Studies, in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Auckland about the state of prisons in New Zealand....