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Large increase in number and cost of cultural reports for offenders

There has been a large increase in cultural reports provided for court sentencing. (File photo) The number of cultural reports and their cost to taxpayers has sky-rocketed, with mixed views on whether they are a good use of more than $3 million that could have been spent on rehabilitation rather than report writing. Figures provided under the Official Information Act show the number of cultural reports invoiced to the Ministry of Justice shot up from 346 in 2019 to 1557 in 2020. The cost to the ministry rose from $639,311 in 2019 to $3,299,373 last year. A cultural report, which can be used by any offender, is an extra way of outlining the offender s background and how they may have come to offend.

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