December 15, 2020 09:56:29 am
The report follows an eight-day unannounced inspection of Auckland Prison, the country’s only maximum-security facility, which took place between January and February. Boshier wrote the report under the Crimes of Torture Act 1989 in his capacity as a National Preventive Mechanism. Although he noted that “there were some good practices” employed at the prison, he also found “some practices that required improvement and others that were of significant concern,” most notably two breaches of the Convention.
The first breach concerns “the unwarranted use of pepper spray on a prisoner” that Boshier’s inspectors reviewed CCTV footage of. According to the report, the footage showed that a prisoner was pepper-sprayed after “moving some of his personal belongings from his cell to the adjacent yard before setting off the sprinkler, and then standing in the yard waiting for staff response.” He complied with staff response, an order to “get d
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