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Tony Wall05:00, May 31 2021
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Rachel Edge says her son, Travis, did four months in solitary confinement at Auckland South Corrections Facility.
Four years ago, an international report slammed New Zealand’s over-use of solitary confinement in prisons. Since Labour came to power, the practice has only increased, driving some to despair. National Correspondent Tony Wall and data journalist Felippe Rodrigues investigate. Travis Edge is a gang member who’s been in and out of prison most of his adult life. “My son’s a little s.,” says his mother, registered nurse Rachel Edge. “I’ve rung the police on him before, when he’s deserved it. He’s a little s., but he’s my little s., and when I see injustice being done, I fight like a pitbull.”
Dozens of kids are still being locked up in "secure care" cells, despite criticism from the Human Rights Commission and the Children's Commissioner.
Southern District Health Board fails to end use of seclusion
30 Dec, 2020 07:53 PM
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A report by the Health Quality and Safety Commission said seclusion had negative outcomes for both patients and mental health staff. Photo / 123RF
Otago Daily Times
More than 200 people have been placed in seclusion by Southern mental health services in the past three years, despite calls for the practice to be done away with by 2020.
Figures released by the Southern District Health Board (SDHB) showed that 223 mental health patients were placed in seclusion defined as a room from which the sole patient is unable to exit over the past three years, across the range of inpatient mental health services.
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