A watershed report on solitary confinement in NZ prisons must now trigger real reform
- Written by Christine McCarthy, Senior Lecturer in Interior Architecture, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Getty ImagesIt is hard to find much joy in the Prison Inspectorate’s report on segregation and cell confinement released today. It finds many prisoners in New Zealand are kept in solitary confinement and suffer negative psychological and physical effects.
The report follows the 2021 finding that female prisoners were segregated without due...
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