23 Mar 2018

'No choice' but to double bunk at Arohata prison - Corrections

From Morning Report, 7:47 am on 23 March 2018

Corrections is insisting it has no choice but to double bunk women in tiny cells at Arohata's overflow prison at Rimutaka despite scathing criticism from the Chief Ombudsman. The Department says a huge and rapid rise in the number of women being locked up means there's not much else it can do.