Time to rethink spending more than $1 billion a year on prisons
Call for the Bail Amendment Act 2013 to be repealed.
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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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Jenny Ruth
Fri, 15 Sep 2017
Fri, 15 Sep 2017
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Time to rethink spending more than $1 billion a year on prisons
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