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Time to rethink spending more than $1 billion a year on prisons

Call for the Bail Amendment Act 2013 to be repealed.

Jenny Ruth
Fri, 15 Sep 2017

With the prison population hitting 10,000 for the first time last year, and prisoners costing on average $100,000 a year to keep in prison, the annual bill is now running at more than $1 billion.

On top of that, the government is planning a new prison at Waikeria costing $750 million by 2021 to

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Fri, 15 Sep 2017
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