New Zealand Advocates Call for Prison Reform
A lobby group for prison reform is accusing Corrections of trying to smudge the issue of segregation after an inmate was assaulted in a Chubb prison van last week.
The victim, an intellectually impaired man facing child sex charges, was confined with a 24-year-old who had several violent convictions.
They had all asked for segregated status, which meant they were segregated from other prisoners, but not from each other.
But the president of the Howard League for Penal Reform Peter Williams says that definition of segregation is incorrect. TV3 NEWS