Imagining a World Without Prisons
The Birdcage
133 Franklin Rd, Freemans Bay, Auckland 1011, New Zealand
Auckland
-36.8486024
174.75264229999993
It is easy to dismiss inmates as troubled and irredeemable people, but this stigma can lead to further marginalisation and a lack of understanding of the real issues behind jail sentences. The global over-representation of indigenous peoples in prisons speaks to lives of restriction and constraint both inside and outside of the wire.
New Zealand has one of the highest rates of incarceration in the developed world and in New Zealand, mass incarceration is Māori incarceration. This talk will draw strongly on the experience and expertise of incarcerated people and will begin a discussion on what strategies we need to help them rehabilitate and move toward decarceration.