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| Plans could trigger 'mental health timebomb' |
| By New Zealand Herald |
| Published: 12/03/2008 |
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NEW ZEALAND - Government plans to introduce tough new sentencing laws and cram extra inmates into existing prisons could trigger a mental health time bomb, the Green Party says. Chief Ombudsman Beverley Wakem yesterday sounded a warning about large numbers of inmates with untreated mental illnesses, which she said posed dangers staff, other prisoners and the afflicted inmates themselves. Green Party law and order spokeswoman Metiria Turei today said the Government's promised suite of hardline sentencing policies and its agreement to partly back ACT's "three strikes" legislation would only make that situation worse. The Government has promised to build a new prison to house the projected bulge in inmates, but with planning and construction likely to take several years it has said it will consider extending the use of "double bunking" - housing two prisoners in one cell. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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