“Lots of people in our society are happy to have vast amounts spent on the mass imprisonment of our Indigenous population. It’s an industry. And the industry relies on society thinking that this is the only way.” — Paula King.
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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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“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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“Imprisoned workers were essential to creating the basic infrastructure of New Zealand’s Pacific empire. Government agents needed government buildings, so offenders who couldn’t (or wouldn’t) pay their fines built residencies, courthouses and other imperial premises.” — Jared Davidson.
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“We have to fix whānau, to fix family. And if we do that, there’ll be nobody in front of our courts. For me, that is the paramount thing to focus on within the justice system.” — Michelle Kidd.
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“The warehousing of surplus humanity in prisons — and the ongoing incarceration of Māori in particular — is a crisis that has resulted in an unjust society where the shadow of the prison colonises our landscapes.” — Professor Tracey McIntosh.
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