Corrections bans Jared Savage s gang book Newsroom 17/01/2021
The Corrections department has refused to allow Jared Savage s best-selling book
Gangland inside prison on the grounds that it promotes violence and drug use .
An inmate at Otago Corrections Facility in Dunedin was sent a copy of the book – but it was banned and confiscated. The prisoner is self-styled jailhouse lawyer Arthur Taylor. He s now battling the department, and has filed a complaint to Janis Adair in the Office of the Inspectorate at Corrections. There is nothing, Taylor argues in his complaint, that justifies or authorises the banning of this book.
Gangland is a history of modern organised crime in New Zealand. The author, Jared Savage, is an investigative journalist with the