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Carwyn Jones and Jamie-Lee Tuuta, Tumuaki of Te Hunga RÅia MÄori o Aotearoa are co-presidents of the MÄori Law Society. The protesters at Waikeria specifically referred to the failure of a recent strategy document to, as yet, have any real impact on the ground. RNZ reported one of the prisoners as saying We hear about this Hōkai Rangi strategy but we don t see it. There is no programme. There is no rehabilitation. It s lock us up, put you in a yard full of gang members and then let you out. And they expect us to change.
There could be more plain speaking and less legal jargon, “being less stuffy”, as Taumaunu says. It’s a vast cry from an offender standing in a dock with just a Corrections officer for company. Judge Taumaunu calls it an all-encompassing approach, learned in part from the variety of ‘’specialist’’ courts around the country and from the reports over three and a half decades calling for reform of the system. Those courts include the Youth Court, Young Adults, Special Circumstances, Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment, Rangatahi and Pasifika whose approach is called a wrap-around. All the necessary services are in court to tackle the problems.