MORNING REPORT/RNZ
A legal expert says he is disappointed the Corrections Minister won t acknowledge a judge s finding that treatment of Auckland Women s Prison inmates was degrading, cruel and inhumane.
As a boy, Rue-Jade Morgan was given shandy and made to wear a dog collar and got used to seeing his alcoholic, drug-addicted mother lying on the floor in a bruised pulp. As a teen, Morgan was told he wasn’t crying properly so banged his head against the wall so hard that he gave himself trauma which affects his speech to this day, and was given only newspaper to wipe up the blood.