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Kelvin Davis says prisoners damaged property worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and risked the lives of staff and themselves.
Prison staff say they’re effectively banned from defending themselves from increasing violence from inmates, leaving some fearing for their lives. One Corrections officer, who works with some of the country s most violent criminals and spoke on the condition of anonymity, said he and his colleagues endured violence about two to three times per week. “We are not allowed to do anything to defend ourselves. We can’t be proactive, so if a prisoner is behaving aggressively, we can’t assume that he’s going to try to hit us. We have to wait until he does hit us.”
A special prison within a prison is guarding the Christchurch mosque shooter and two other notoriously violent criminals at a huge cost to the taxpayer.
Career crim Michael Sneller talks to Stuff about the unsolved disappearance of his partner
In 1980, Marion Granville walked out of her Naenae home in Lower Hutt and never came back. Her disappearance has been linked to some of the biggest names in New Zealand crime, but 40 years later, it remains unsolved. Now, Michael Sneller, a 76-year-old career criminal and Granville’s partner at the time of her disappearance, is speaking publicly for the first time about the case that has occupied his thoughts for four decades. He is appealing to anyone who knows what happened to the 29-year-old mother of three to come forward.