"Appalling crime story after appalling crime story gets reported.
"But media rarely report on the big decline in New Zealand's prison population.
Source: Department of Corrections: Prison Facts and Statistics, Sept. 2022 "[A politician once] described ... prisons as a fiscal and moral failure. They certainly don't rehabilitate every inmate. They don't even come close. Far more needs to be done within prisons in that regard.
"When Labour became government Kelvin Davis stated a goal of reducing the prison population and set about doing so. This is one policy goal they've actually achieved. But at what cost? ...
"But prisons serve another purpose. They protect the public from dangerous people. That aspect of their place in society seems to have been overlooked in recent years."~ Lindsay Mitchell, from her post 'NZ's rarely-reported plummeting prison population'
Monday, 19 December 2022
"Prisons serve another purpose. They protect the public from dangerous people."
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Home detention = prison time in the eyes of these scumbag statist judges and politicians. In a few years they'll ask what hotel you want to stay at. Or is that what they do now?
But ... haven't crime rates actually fallen over this period?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_New_Zealand#21st_Century
To be honest it wouldn't surprise me if 20% of inmates had been in jail for offenses that (in my opinion at least) shouldn't be crimes.
What does surprise me is the idea that Labour could conceive of a policy, actually execute it, and then have it work out as intended.
Hmmm, you make a good point, Duncan. The slope of both graphs does look remarkably similar. And, as you say, its pretty hard to ascribe intentionally to anything that's happened under the Red Team's watch.
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