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| How to get a jail birdie |
| By The New Zealand Herald |
| Published: 04/14/2008 |
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NEW ZEALAND - A prison sentence may cost you your liberty, but your golf needn't suffer. The Corrections Department has confirmed "grass areas", which double as putting greens, are available at two North Island prisons for inmates keen on maintaining their handicap. But if golf isn't your game, that's okay - Corrections says a range of other leisure activities are available to inmates, including petanque, darts and touch rugby. National's law and order spokesman Simon Power, who raised the issue with Corrections in a written question to the House, told the Herald on Sunday he was finally convinced the grass was really greener in prison. Rather than places of rehabilitation, prisons had become country clubs where inmates were exposed to a full range of leisure activities. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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