Inmates are getting away with violence because they re not being punished for it, prison staff say.
Assaults against prison staff have been rising in recent years, no matter which way you measure it. Attacks that left staff needing hospital care have nearly doubled since 2016, and assaults overall have gone up from 5.3 per 100 prisoners to 8.95.
National MP Simeon Brown has called for a Government inquiry, which the Justice Select Committee - dominated by Labour - rejected, Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis saying he was working with the union on a plan to de-escalate the violence. The assault rates on Corrections officers have just escalated, it s way too high, Corrections Association president Alan Whitley told Newshub. We needed to do something to drive it back down.
The freeze is targeted at the core public sector, such as ministerial staff, and officials do not consider police officers part of the core public service. Information released by the Government as part of the announcement says police and the Defence Force are among the agencies that have to give regard” to the freeze, but police won t say how it will affect its approach to collective bargaining, which is underway. Core public sector agencies, such as Corrections, are asked to “give effect to the pay restraint. An email from Corrections chief executive Jeremy Lightfoot to staff, obtained by
Stuff, confirmed anyone in his organisation earning more than $100,000 would not receive a pay rise for three years.
Murderer doctor Venod Skantha: Corrections not told of lost appeal before his sudden death
15 Apr, 2021 05:58 PM
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The former doctor convicted of murdering a Dunedin teenager has died in prison. Video / NZ Herald
The former doctor convicted of murdering a Dunedin teenager has died in prison. Video / NZ Herald
Otago Daily Times
By: Daisy Hudson
The sudden death in prison of Dunedin murderer Venod Skantha has sparked calls for an overhaul of court policy.
The former doctor, who murdered Dunedin teenager Amber-Rose Rush in 2018, died in a suspected suicide at the Otago Corrections Facility, at Milburn, on Wednesday, just hours after learning his appeal bid had been tossed out.
Allan Whitley of Lansing is hoping to make farming and gardening more inclusive.
Whitley told FOX 47 that he grew up in a family of farmers and saw gardening as more of a chore when he was a kid but appreciates it now.
My father and my grandfather were farmers not necessarily as a job, but just as a necessity to feed the family. It was one of the chores I kind of fought, but the past few years, it just somehow came back to me.
Whitley started his own garden behind his home and decided he wanted to share tips to educate communities about urban gardening and launched Root of the Vine Urban Garden.
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