Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jun 22, 2017 17:39:08 GMT 12
MAORI PRISON PROPOSITION AN OXYMORON
How can you run a prison on Maori values when our ancestral tikanga [customs] never used imprisonment as a form of social control? Either the values get watered down or the adherence to any form of tikanga is solely used as a justification to perpetuate the high levels of incarcerated Maori.
The idea of Maori-run prisons as a revolutionary initiative to curb the negative statistics is neither creative nor tika [appropriate].....
www.stuff.co.nz/stuff-nation/93951090/maori-prison-proposition-an-oxymoron
How can you run a prison on Maori values when our ancestral tikanga [customs] never used imprisonment as a form of social control? Either the values get watered down or the adherence to any form of tikanga is solely used as a justification to perpetuate the high levels of incarcerated Maori.
The idea of Maori-run prisons as a revolutionary initiative to curb the negative statistics is neither creative nor tika [appropriate].....
www.stuff.co.nz/stuff-nation/93951090/maori-prison-proposition-an-oxymoron