“Rikihana thought his life had been going downhill ever since he’d first gone to prison. On his first lag, he saw someone stabbed up in his cell. That was when he realised prison was serious.” — An extract from ‘The Valley’, by Asher Emanuel.
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The Jevon McSkimming affair “is yet another distraction, a smokescreen, from some truly worrying developments at the other end of the criminal justice sector”. — Denis O’Reilly on the soaring prison muster (and its soaring costs), and the meth crisis.
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“It’s not actually about the time you spend in there. It’s about your time when you get out. And what you have to cope with, and deal with, and put back together, and negotiate. That was almost harder than being in prison.” — Jaye Pukepuke.
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“That might have been me but for the good grace of God — and I always walked with that. I was there to ensure that they got back out to their families intact.” — Rhonda Hāpi-Smith, author of ‘Inside the Wire’, on her 20 years in the prison service.
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“Imprisonment and forced labour, here and for Indigenous people in the Pacific Islands, were a deliberate means of breaking property and traditional work practice into the mould of capital.” — Rob Campbell reviews ‘Blood and Dirt’.
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“Treating people with humanity is good for everyone. Especially when someone hasn’t seen much humanity in their life.” — Kingi Snelgar.
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“It’s one thing to know about a problem — and another to live it, to feel crushed by it, and to try to overcome it.”
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“When we say that we’re struggling for Black lives, it’s not just for Black people, it’s for a different framework, a different system, a different future. A future that involves all of us.” — Angela Davis.
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“It’s difficult to escape the conclusion that our cannabis laws have been yet another tool of colonial oppression.” — Tim McKinnel on the upcoming cannabis referendum.
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The recent election had its usual predictable talk about law and order — and that talk ranged from...
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