{"id":26476,"date":"2021-01-08T13:29:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T04:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/08\/forms-of-structural-violence-waikeria-highlights-injustice-of-new-zealands-prisons"},"modified":"2021-01-08T13:29:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T04:29:49","slug":"forms-of-structural-violence-waikeria-highlights-injustice-of-new-zealands-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26476","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Forms of structural violence\u2019: Waikeria highlights injustice of New Zealand&#8217;s prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand\u2019s pride in its progressive human rights record is belied by how it treats its people in prisons, say advocates after last week\u2019s standoff<\/p>\n<p>When images appeared last week of 16 prisoners standing on the smoking roof of Waikeria Prison\u2019s high-security unit, justice advocate Julia Whaipooti was not surprised.<\/p>\n<p>The prisoners had been involved in a six-day standoff with guards that started as complaints over alleged inhumane conditions. They had created make-shift weapons and started several fires, setting mattresses alight. They lounged in collapsible chairs while guards waited below, clad in riot gear. By the end of the standoff, much of the prison\u2019s top level was burned out, the roof partially collapsed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/08\/forms-of-structural-violence-waikeria-highlights-injustice-of-new-zealands-prisons\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand\u2019s pride in its progressive human rights record is belied by how it treats its people in prisons, say advocates after last week\u2019s standoffWhen images appeared last week of 16 prisoners standing on the smoking roof of Waikeria Prison\u2019s high-s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26479,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26476\/revisions\/26479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}