Corrections Department

Apparently, all you need is a false story and the outraged reaction of three left-wingers.

Take this one.

We have failed Labour candidate Michael Bott, the stupid head of the Corrections union, and of course, the usual human rights garbage, all commenting on the “strip-searching” of a guard.

The Corrections Department is facing legal action after it allegedly strip-searched a staff member at Rimutaka Prison during a botched sting operation.

In early March, security manager Wayne Andrews and staff from the intel unit, complete with drug dogs, stopped the prison guard as he entered the gatehouse to start his shift.

Believing he had been smuggling contraband into the prison, they strip-searched him on the spot. Finding nothing, they then took him to the staff gym and strip-searched him again, but failed to find any incriminating evidence.

The guard, who had worked at the prison for more than three years, was sent home, but resumed work the following day and has continued working since.  Read more »

When GPS tracking for paedos and violent crims was introduced last year the liberal panty-waists made the usual noises about human rights for offenders. (I think they are lucky not to be strung up)

The icing on the cake was a nice little tasering.

So GPS did its job. And the human rights of the public were protected.

Some people are just taking the piss, all the time, even in prison. It is high time that Aaron Forden learned some tough lessons. He needs to be put in a cold, dank, concrete cell and fed only on things that can be slid under the door.

New Zealand’s most notorious prison escaper has smashed up a new high-tech cell built at great expense to contain our most dangerous criminals.

The Corrections Department spent $180,000 refurbishing a cell in the maximum security prison at Paremoremo. But last weekend, only six hours after being placed there, Aaron Forden ripped into it.

Seven months ago, the Herald on Sunday revealed that Forden, dubbed “Houdini” for his repeated escapes, had destroyed another cell. He had been placed in the detention centre known as ‘the pound’ after barricading himself in a tower at Paremoremo.  Read more »

Sometimes, and rather more often than we would like, the law looks like an ass.

You could read this finding twice, or ten times, but you would be battling to understand why one of NZ’s most vicious repeated sex offenders should be gifted $1000 from the taxpayers for his totally worthless attempt to screw the judicial system.

Imagine of we could recall judges?

One of New Zealand’s most notorious sex offenders has been awarded $1000 in costs after a failed attempt to sue the Corrections Department.

Nicholas Reekie sued the Corrections Department, the Attorney-General and Waitakere District Court for humiliation and unlawful detention while in Auckland’s Paremoremo Prison in 2001 and 2002, to the sum of $1 million.

In August Justice Edwin Wylie ruled that his rights were breached when he was strip-searched by prison staff but also ruled that Reekie would not get any compensation for the ill-treatment.

Justice Wylie also found that the majority of Reekie’s claims were not made out and only two of his 10 actions were successful.

Because Reekie did not suffer any detrimental effects from the ill-treatment, a declaration of the breaches was all that was required by the Correction Department staff.

In the decision Justice Wylie said costs should lie where they fell.

But Reekie then filed an application seeking costs worth $5762, made up of lawyer costs, travel costs and phone bills.

Justice Wylie today said the general principle was that the unsuccessful party should pay costs, but it was at the court’s discretion.

“In accordance with settled principle, I am not persuaded that it is appropriate to make a general costs order in favour of Mr Reekie. “There is nothing to depart from the general rule that a litigant in person is not normally entitled to costs,” he said.

But he said it was appropriate allow Reekie a contribution towards counsel fees incurred by him for the preparation and filing of his original statement of claim.

Reekie was awarded $1000 in costs, to be paid to him by the Department of Corrections.

Kiwis are getting fed up with crim hugging, panty waist judges. I don’t believe that vigilantism is the right way to go, but it may be the lesser of two
evils. Get the justice sorted and this will not be necessary.

A paedophile released after eight years in prison for crimes that included the drugging and violation of young boys has been driven from Turangi by a firebomb attack on his house.

Darren Simon Kihi – who has committed crimes against as many as 28 victims – was released from prison to live in Turangi last Sunday, after temporarily living in Taupo.

He was moved there because there was no room at a home in another town that offered support for sex offenders, a Parole Board report reveals.

The April report, released to the Waikato Times, said Kihi was at “very-high” risk of reoffending upon release, and the 42-year-old would pose a threat “almost immediately upon release”, without supervision.

However, a month later the Parole Board agreed to release him to Turangi, where he’d been on work release for two years, and had guaranteed employment.

He was also placed on an extended supervision order which restricted his movements. While the Turangi community weren’t privy to the extent of Kihi’s offending, which took place elsewhere, they demanded the Corrections Department remove him.

But residents’ frustrations boiled over this week, culminating in a molotov cocktail attack on Kihi’s Paekiri St house about 6am yesterday. He was not home at the time.

The blast caused internal damage, rendering the house uninhabitable.

Meanwhile another crim thought fighting in court was the go. In a country with a REAL justice system, this idiot would be charged with assault for every one he was struggling with, given the maximum sentence on each case to be served sequentially after the initial sentence had been completed. He’ll probably get victim support.

A bloody fight akin to a bar-room brawl erupted in the New Plymouth District Court this morning.

After being sentenced to nine years jail for a violent robbery, Michael Hutchinson, 37, turned on Shannon Glen, 20, his smaller co-offender standing in the dock beside him and rained punches on Glen and bit him on the shoulder.

An extended fight ensued as prison officers, police and court security staff all tried to get Hutchinson off Glen.

Once Glen was freed the brawl moved to the ground, continuing for several minutes as Hutchinson continued to fight the pile of enforcement staff on top of him.

Diddums is the only thing that springs to mind when I read about the mother having a moan about her criminal son being kept in prison, rather than being let out to attend his father’s funeral.

The teenage son of one of the shearers killed in a road crash near Wairoa was refused permission to leave prison to attend his father’s tangi.

James Weir’s mother, Hine Whaanga, is furious he was not allowed to attend the tangi of his father, Kennedy.

Kennedy Weir, 49, was killed with Watson Oliver Tipu, 31, and half-brothers Raimon Keefe, 16, and Zyah Gianni Marsh, 13, when the car being driven by Mr Tipu was involved in a head-on crash north of Raupunga last Wednesday.

Ms Whaanga said her 18-year-old son was distraught at being denied permission to attend the tangi at Wairoa’s Putahi urupa on Monday.

Weir is in Whanganui Prison. In November he was sentenced in Gisborne District Court to two years jail on 31 charges including intentional damage and burglary. He is due for release in September and will serve the remainder of his sentence under conditions set by the Corrections Department.

It may have escaped her notice but the reason people get sent to prison is because they are criminals and society has determined that they should lose their freedom.

The farce of Lord Mayor for life, He who must be obeyed, Sir Barry Curtis’s little Tongan promise is being sheeted home by the Howick and Pakuranga Times.

They have discovered that government has so far pledged $500,000 to relief and reconstruction efforts in Tonga’s devastated capital Nuku’alofa and reveals the amount will increase soon and significantly, as the government is due to release details of a full assistance package once approved by Cabinet ministers.

One has to ask why SDir Barry is trying to carry out NZ foreign policy off of his own bat?

Manukau City is one of the largest cities in New Zealand. It is largely polynesian in mix and based in South Auckland.

Barry Curtis has run Manukau as his persoanl fiefdom for some time and would have been tipped out had the Conservative vote not split.

There are very good reasons why the Manukau City Council is largely disfunctional but most of the reasons stem from namby=pamby pet projects of the erstwhile Mayor and his lackeys.

A case in point is this little stoush that has opened the New Year.

Three councillors have objected, quite rightly too, to Mayor Sir Barry Curtis committing ratepayer resources to efforts to rebuild Tonga’s capital. The trio, councillors Jami-Lee Ross (Howick), Dick Quax (Botany) and Bob Wichman (Papatoetoe), have told the Times they’re worried Sir Barry has taken the decision alone, before the full council has debated the idea.

The sensible Cr Ross from Howick points out that Manukau is sending a Town Planner to help in Tonga when the council’s own annual report for 2005/6, which states “only” 50 per cent of resource consents and 60 per cent of building consents had been processed inside regulatory deadlines.

Uhmmm…."outside regulatory deadlines" is womble speak for breaking the law.

Lord Mayor, His Majesty, El Jefe Sir Barry Curtis has typically responded with piffle completely missing the point that he committing council resources that are already streched to the limit and pursuing foreign policy and assistance when that is clearly the domain of the government not some tin-pot little lord in a city in New Zealand.

Councillor Ross has also called into question the Lord Mayor’s silly justification with his own press release.

Democracy in Manukau?, not while Sir Barry is Mayor.