The Wellington High Court has ruled that the Government provided insufficient compensation to Teina Pora, and that the Cabinet guidelines on wrongful imprisonment were not correctly applied. (The guidelines, written in 1998, suggest $100,000 of compensation be paid per year of wrongful imprisonment.) When Mr Pora’s compensation was considered the
Day: September 13, 2017
Hinewehi Mohi has been appointed to the board of Te Māngai Pāho.
On Monday the Minister for Corrections, Louise Upston, released a new strategy for “managing women offenders”. The strategy is entitled, Changing Lives, Shaping Futures, and is focused on reoffending reduction.[1] The strategy notes there are 739 female prisoners (circa 50% Māori), and 6,000 female offenders in community settings (ethnicity not
On Wednesday the Chief Coroner, Judge Deborah Marshall, released provisional annual suicide figures for the year to 30 June 2017. Within the year there were 606 suicides. This included 130 Māori suicides. The Māori suicide rate was 22 per 100,000 people. This is much higher than other ethnicity, and the
The Green Party have proposed that the South Taranaki Bight becomes a marine mammal sanctuary to protect the feeding ground of the Blue Whale, whilst allowing commercial and recreational fishing to continue. This would also, in their view, have the effect of overruling and terminating the consent granted to Tans-Tasman