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Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: New mega-prison will be a mega-cluster
Description: Don’t go thinking that I’m soft on crime or pro-criminal or anything like that. But I think this idea the Government’s got of having a mega prison as part of its investment in the Corrections Service, I think it’s an idea that sucks. What it’s doing is it’s reviving a plan to build a mega-prison in Waikato with an 810-bed extension of Waikeria Prison. Which means, all up, there will be 1,865 beds. At the moment, the prison can hold 455 inmates. In two years’ time, according to the Government, there will be another...