Prison life
Sir, — Mr Geoffrey Palmer will be delighted with Chris Moore’s view of prison life (June 20). Who needs to pay for expensive law and order advertisements when journalists can do the job so easily? And that cell photograph. Typical? The only thing it seemed to lack was a micro-wave oven. I note that no mention is made in the article of the “digger” where erring inmates are locked in maximum security, dungeon-like conditions. Nor of the boredom and banality and insanity caused by locking grown men in tiny concrete rooms for days and weeks and years. There is no mention of suicides that result on occasions, nor of the “separates” wing where currently over 70 inmates have to be kept for their own protection. I' am very surprised that the Paparua Prison authorities allowed themselves to be conned by the Government into running such a public relations exercise so close to the election. Unless, of course, they want Labour returned? — Yours, etc., G. L. MULQUEEN. June 20, 1987.
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