She must have more up-to-date stats than the public because the September 17 to September 18 reduction was only 418.
"We've seen about 1000 fewer people in our prisons, and so any work that we do on rehabilitation programmes ultimately does benefit Māori."
Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis says:
"...tribes from Ngāti Whātua right through to Ngāti Kuri are working with the department to reduce the prison population in the north and support people when they emerge from prison."Yet in September 2018 there were 625 prisoners in Northland Region Corrections facility. A year earlier there were 607.
The government is fixated on the prison population.
But they are ignoring where it begins. Births into unstable, dare I say it, unmarried, dysfunctional family situations. I blogged yesterday about Maori accounting for 93% of the increase in births to the year ending September 2018. Around a 1,000 more were ex-nuptial and 300 fewer nuptial.
Marriages (with proven greater longevity than de facto relationships) might not last, but they at least say something about parental commitment at the time of birth. There is no doubt that these babies have significantly lower risks of eventually becoming prisoners.
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With all the affirmative action, special treatment and welfare handed out to maori to help improve their life styles, the negative issues surrounding maori seem to have got worse not better, it has made them dependent on gov't rather than their own abilities. Molly coddling doesn't help anyone. Do gov'ts actually care.? Or is it about using these situations as a political football for political gain.
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