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Labour's Corrections spokesperson "unfazed" by new prison population reduction target

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Wed, 20 Sep 2023, 7:59AM
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Labour's Corrections spokesperson "unfazed" by new prison population reduction target

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Wed, 20 Sep 2023, 7:59AM

Labour's Corrections Spokesperson is unfazed by Government's move to drop its prison population reduction target.  

The party has scrapped its 2017 promise to bring numbers down by 30% within 15 years. 

Kelvin Davis told Mike Hosking that they were facing a prison capacity crisis in 2017, but that's changed.  

He says re-sentencing rates after 12 months have dropped 11% since 2017, showing there's been a number of success stories. 

Davis is fairly relaxed about the Government's position on prison numbers. 

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