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Parliamentary Select Committee Submissions 101
This guide will provide a basic overview of the select committee submissions writing process.
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DRAFT Submission on the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill 2024
This is a draft of our submission on the Treaty Principles Bill. Please feel free to use it for ideas when writing your own.
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DRAFT Submission on the Oranga Tamariki (Responding to Serious Youth Offending) Amendment Bill 2024
This is a late draft of our submission on the Boot Camps Bill. This Bill will cause a lot of harm and trauma to rangatahi, so we encourage everyone to submit against it.
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DRAFT submission on the Sentencing (Reform) Amendment Bill 2024
People Against Prisons Aotearoa is strongly opposed to all aspects of this Bill. This Bill will intensify the existing harms of the prison system and dramatically increase the prison population. It will fail to achieve the stated purpose of the Bill, fail to reduce serious offending and will fail to “ensure offenders take personal responsibility…
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Let’s talk about the Sentencing (Reform) Amendment Bill
What does the bill do? Limits sentence reductions; Targets young people with harsher sentencing; Restricts courts’ ability to consider mitigating factors in offending; Restricts courts’ ability to consider the circumstances of the defendant in cases of recidivism; Encourages cumulative sentencing; Encourages guilty pleas; …and more. What Impact will the Bill have? This Bill will drive…
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How to email your local MP about the Ram Raids Bill
A step-by-step guide to writing to your local MP, asking them to stop the Ram Raids Bill.
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Dire Conditions in New Zealand Prison Visiting Rooms For Whānau & Friends
Families and prisoners report unwelcoming and restrictive environments during visits. Under the Corrections Act 2004, prisoners are entitled to one 30-minute visit per week, yet many face extreme limitations and distressing conditions, especially since COVID-19. Visiting rooms should support family bonds, not strain them!
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Build Communities, Not Cages
On Saturday 25th May, join us outside Mount Eden Prison to say NO to Three Strikes, US-style megaprisons, defunding social services, and mass incarceration.
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Corrections Shining Torches Into Prisoners’ Faces Overnight
At night, Corrections officers are required to shine torches into each cell, usually every two hours but as often as every 15 minutes for people in ISU. This is a form of torture. Cheap technological interventions could avoid the need for this practice.
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Neglected Bedding Crisis in NZ Prisons: Inadequate Hygiene & Health Risks, Urgent Action Needed for Prisoner Welfare
Corrections are failing to provide prisoners with even the most basic standards of hygiene. Bedding in prisons is often mouldy and rotten, and Corrections are failing to replace it.