The Department of Corrections is being blasted for suggesting it protects inmates from gang culture.
Corrections is putting the blame for high Maori re-offending rates at the feet of gangs, saying they drive ex-inmates back into a life of crime.
Waipareira Trust CEO John Tamihere told Mike Hosking Corrections' claim that its rehabilitation work is undone outside of prison, is not true.
"To suggest that they gang-proof you while you're in prison is not true. It is a recruitment factory," he said.
"There is a culture where, to protect yourself, you become aligned with a gang."
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