Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 27, 2024 5:58:57 GMT 12
CORRECTIONS MINISTER MARK MITCHELL'S STRATEGIES TO STEM HIGH RATES OF MĀORI IN JAILS
Trades training for prisoners and more involvement by hapu and iwi are the strategies proposed by Corrections Minister Mark Mitchell to stem the high rates of Māori in jails.
Mitchell told The Hui host Julian Wilcox there needed to be a genuine partnership between Corrections and iwi and hapu leadership to help rehabilitate and reintegrate Māori prisoners as they came out of the Corrections system.
"The talks that I'm having with iwi leaders that I meet with is quite simply, 'we cannot do this without your leadership. We cannot do this without you putting a line in the sand also, and saying that there's been too much inter-generational harm'," he said....
www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/03/corrections-minister-mark-mitchell-s-strategies-to-stem-high-rates-of-m-ori-in-jails.html
Trades training for prisoners and more involvement by hapu and iwi are the strategies proposed by Corrections Minister Mark Mitchell to stem the high rates of Māori in jails.
Mitchell told The Hui host Julian Wilcox there needed to be a genuine partnership between Corrections and iwi and hapu leadership to help rehabilitate and reintegrate Māori prisoners as they came out of the Corrections system.
"The talks that I'm having with iwi leaders that I meet with is quite simply, 'we cannot do this without your leadership. We cannot do this without you putting a line in the sand also, and saying that there's been too much inter-generational harm'," he said....
www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/03/corrections-minister-mark-mitchell-s-strategies-to-stem-high-rates-of-m-ori-in-jails.html