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  • Parliamentary Select Committee Submissions 101

    This guide will provide a basic overview of the select committee submissions writing process.

    June 12, 2024
  • Corrections Shining Torches Into Prisoners’ Faces Overnight

    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.

    May 18, 2024
  • Neglected Bedding Crisis in NZ Prisons: Inadequate Hygiene & Health Risks, Urgent Action Needed for Prisoner Welfare

    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.

    May 15, 2024
  • We can reduce crime with compassion

    Grace Gordon: A more collective and sustainable approach to safety is to centre care, compassion and connection to the people and world around us.

    August 7, 2023
  • Justice reform needs a vision – and someone with the guts to speak up for it

    Holly Willson: The honest confrontation needed to create transformative change, just as in a transformative justice model, requires articulating wrongdoings and engaging in open communication around efforts to work through and address harm.

    July 20, 2023
  • Unpacking the tough-on-crime election agenda

    Lin Mussell: Tough-on-crime platforms are an easy way to shore up votes, but the evidence shows that crime statistics are actually decreasing.

    July 11, 2023
  • Care Not Cages online launch

    We’re launching our campaign against ‘tough on crime’ narratives on Monday, July 10. Register now.

    July 5, 2023
  • The other side of talking tough on retail crime

    Tom Pearce: Research shows that rising costs do drive crime. We need to reject the framing that conveniently ignores them.

    June 9, 2023
  • The media crime narrative

    In a media landscape of declining ad revenue and web traffic mostly dictated by engagement-driven social media algorithms, the media’s profit incentive creates some particularly perverse outcomes.

    May 17, 2022
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