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| Investigator exonerates prison |
| By The New Zealand Herald |
| Published: 02/15/2008 |
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NEW ZEALAND - Police will investigate corruption allegations against two Rimutaka Prison staff members, but there is no evidence of systemic corruption at the prison, a report says. Claims of bullying, harassment, assaults on staff members and endemic smuggling of contraband prompted Corrections to bring in an independent investigator, Wellington barrister David Patten, to conduct an inquiry. Mr Patten found no substance to claims of systemic corruption at the prison, near Wellington. However, several former officers who had made allegations - including Ingrid and Mark Rijniers, who in December 2006 told the Herald gangs controlled the prison and that inmates compiled shopping lists of contraband for guards to smuggle in - refused to co-operate with Mr Patten.Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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