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| Prisoner claims rights breached over TV hire |
| By stuff.co.nz- Shane Cowlishaw |
| Published: 05/27/2014 |
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Prisoner Kerryn Mitchell spends her $2.70 weekly allowance on coffee, fruit and phonecards, so she struggles to understand how she will afford to rent a television. The Corrections Department wants to introduce the rental scheme in an effort to reduce the amount of contraband smuggled into prisons in inmates' personal TVs - but Mitchell has brought a High Court case claiming the removal of her own set is a breach of her rights. The scheme removes the right of prisoners to bring their own TVs into prison, replacing them with department-issued clear-framed sets that can be rented for $2 per week. Read More. |
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