List of banned visitors

Press, 21 July 1988, Page 2

List of banned visitors

PA Auckland Paremoremo Prison officers say they will continue a ban on prison visits by Maori elders they call “activists.”

Those named as activists, however, have reacted angrily, saying prison officers had wrongly accused them of stirring at the jail. The ban, imposed by the maximum security jail’s Public Service Association sub-group, cuts across a Justice Department ruling last week that Maori inmates had the right to choose elders they wished to see. The P.S.A. sub-group yesterday released a list of six Maoris barred from the jail. Those listed are Kaumatua Henare Sutherland, Mr Peter Love, chairman of the Taranaki Maori Foundation (a prisoner rehabilitation group), the suspended Whare Paia head, Ms Titewhai Harawira, Ms Donna Awatere, Mr Craven Tane and the Rev. Eru PotakaDewes.

In the prison’s D block Mongrel Mob inmates protesting against treatment there have been throwing waste into corridors, and supporters outside the prison have set up a protest camp.