Decade on dole or something else
One “lifer,” in Christchurch Women’s Prison for murder, says that she must get an education now in order to have a chance of a job when she is released.
She says she will be about 50 years old when she is released. “That gives me 10 years to sit on the dole, or else do something I want to do.” She says that adjusting to prison life is hard, and she got quite depressed when she first came in.
But she is determined to carry on with studies towards a university degree.
Another inmate was sent from her family to a girls’ home when she was 13 or 14. Now in her 20s, she is in her second year in prison. She is studying “real basic” English and maths of the kind normally taught in primary school. She is glad to be given the chance to master it now, but isn’t finding it easy.
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Press, 20 December 1988, Page 13
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