{"id":51971,"date":"2023-01-19T04:00:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T19:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/19\/people-dont-want-to-spend-money-on-law-breakers-staff-shortages-send-new-zealands-prisons-to-crisis-point"},"modified":"2023-01-19T04:00:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T19:00:05","slug":"human-rights-commission-deeply-concerned-over-state-of-new-zealands-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51971","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Commission \u2018deeply concerned\u2019 over state of New Zealand\u2019s prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vacant positions mean that some prisoners spend 23 hours a day locked in their cells while others face months-long delays to parole hearings<\/p>\n<p>Confined to cells for 23 hours a day; unable to see family face-to-face; problems accessing lawyers \u2013 New Zealand\u2019s prisoners are becoming \u201cexcessively disconnected and isolated\u201d because prison staffing shortages have hit crisis point, says the Human Rights Commission, lawyers and those working with prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>As of January, the department of Corrections is down by more than 850 frontline staff across its prisons \u2013 498 of those are vacant positions, with another 354 unable to work due to sickness, injury, leave or \u201csome other reason\u201d, the department says.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/19\/people-dont-want-to-spend-money-on-law-breakers-staff-shortages-send-new-zealands-prisons-to-crisis-point\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vacant positions mean that some prisoners spend 23 hours a day locked in their cells while others face months-long delays to parole hearingsConfined to cells for 23 hours a day; unable to see family face-to-face; problems accessing lawyers \u2013 New Zealan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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":[41,53,56,2829,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-human-rights","category-new-zealand","category-prisons","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\/51971","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51972,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51971\/revisions\/51972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}