Hidden history of how prison labour built New Zealand | Q+A 2023

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  • @hermitpermit2553
    @hermitpermit2553 Рік тому +14

    Tbh i reckon alot of guys would rather be outside doing work than being in shared cells for 23hrs a day

  • @LauraTeAhoWhite
    @LauraTeAhoWhite Рік тому +7

    Penal labour is cheap labour. Sending people to prison for petty crimes rather than committing to addressing economic and social inequalities means that the government can essentially get away with paying people 0.20c to 0.60c an hour for their labour. Not to mention that prisons are serving as gang recruitment centres which is fuelling this vicious cycle.

  • @Straitjacket-Fits
    @Straitjacket-Fits Рік тому +6

    Past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.

    • @Peter_Pepper_Love
      @Peter_Pepper_Love 9 місяців тому

      ...one had a hammer, another wore a straitjacket and the future...he was bleak!

  • @kiwiwifi
    @kiwiwifi 6 місяців тому +1

    Italian WW2 to build miles of rock walls north of Whangarei. They weren't even criminals. Such an illiberty!

  • @Neil-yx3rc
    @Neil-yx3rc 6 місяців тому +2

    Isn’t it great…prisoners had to work to benefit society…and to earn their keep…and to make reparations for their crimes.
    Please reinstate this excellent policy.

  • @dylanthomas9803
    @dylanthomas9803 3 місяці тому +2

    Prisoners…na they were slaves

  • @jstarkush8035
    @jstarkush8035 Рік тому +1

    Whats up with the jester logos on the uniforms

  • @stevehughes1510
    @stevehughes1510 Рік тому +11

    We should do that again, there will be more convicts after the October elections. Put them to work or in army training camps and then to work, teach them what it's like to have to pay and work your way through life.

    • @angusmaxim3450
      @angusmaxim3450 Рік тому +3

      Considering how overworked and underpaid people are these days, treating prisoners as slaves will probably do exactly as you have said.

    • @jamescooper-hope6930
      @jamescooper-hope6930 Рік тому

      So you're endorsing state sponsored slavery?
      Come on, it's 2023.
      60% of our prison population are functionally illiterate, maybe start there.

    • @andreatodd3095
      @andreatodd3095 Рік тому +3

      The author of the book stated that most of the prisoners we put in jail for being drunk and unruly, ...if only it was that today......

    • @222-i6o
      @222-i6o Рік тому

      yip thy wuld gt out of prison and say i may as well do this and gt paid....thy wuldnt come back....the strategy is at the moment sell a few grams make a hundy grand then put yor feet up for 3 yers all expenses paid prety smart business model
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    • @jonymanay
      @jonymanay Рік тому +5

      We dont need prisoners coming out of jail with military training. They should be put to work but with skills they can use after getting out. Maybe road construction. Truck or loader driving in a mine or dock yard.
      Maybe sort rubbish at the tip to be recyled. fishing ships, Farm fencing. Stuff like that.

  • @Hup-x1y
    @Hup-x1y Рік тому +3

    Maori prisoners fighting for their lands and natural resources built Aucks , , , its all coming back
    Honour the treaty
    Honour the treaty

  • @kiwiwifi
    @kiwiwifi 8 місяців тому

    Unfreedom is a word. So is illiberty!

    • @jackpeterkettley
      @jackpeterkettley 6 місяців тому

      unfreedom is in the cambridge dictionary, it is a word born out of the social sciences of the 1800s to the present . Specifically in works relating to imprisonment.

    • @kiwiwifi
      @kiwiwifi 6 місяців тому +1

      ​@@jackpeterkettleyI'm unright

  • @mcgruff3309
    @mcgruff3309 Рік тому +5

    Lucky the prisoners are not around to see the state of the country is in now days!

    • @Peter_Pepper_Love
      @Peter_Pepper_Love 9 місяців тому

      Yeah the state of men today ,not you mcgruf... but the soyboys bitching about it 🎤 🤔

  • @rachaellett7867
    @rachaellett7867 8 місяців тому

    If the prisoners were doing all the work, what was everyone else doing.

    • @jackpeterkettley
      @jackpeterkettley 6 місяців тому +1

      unemployed or buying land off Maori for cheap

    • @danielcallaghan8940
      @danielcallaghan8940 4 місяці тому

      @@jackpeterkettley Carving this nation out of the bush. We celebrate our pioneers here.

  • @plc2866
    @plc2866 Рік тому +1

    What do you do when prisoners don’t want to rehabilitate? Do we make them 😂

  • @jasonpoihegatama1347
    @jasonpoihegatama1347 Рік тому

    how about the curbs prison made

  • @lukeduke3001
    @lukeduke3001 Рік тому +2

    What a wousher

  • @pickle_a_day_keeps_the_dr_away
    @pickle_a_day_keeps_the_dr_away 2 місяці тому

    Un-free. 😂

  • @shannonbrady5582
    @shannonbrady5582 Рік тому +2

    best thing can do put them to work its just a 5 star holiday camp no wrapping them in bubble rap digusting work them hard put some good work ethics into them crimes arent scared of time needs change

    • @222-i6o
      @222-i6o Рік тому +1

      yip thy wuld gt out of prison and say i may as well do this and gt paid....thy wuldnt come back....the strategy is at the moment sell a few grams make a hundy grand then put yor feet up for 3 yers all expenses paid prety smart business model