11-01-2022, 10:48 AM
"Like most of the Country Landowners Association, she was a believer in small government, with a paramilitary wing to deal with ramblers & picnickers."
Land of my neighbours, Barry Pilton
"The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes."
George Eliot. Middlemarch
"The only evil in the world is the one that lies in people - in their pride, greed & duty.'
Corrag, Susan Fletcher
"We cannot change the reality of the life offenders face, but we can begin to recognise the realities of the lives they have led, & promote changes that will provoke healing instead of rage.
As I understand it, under-floor heating has been installed in at least one of the new prisons – the one in Otago – the decision having been made that given the average winter in that area, under-floor heating was the cheapest & most efficient option. But where in the media debate about the idea of under-floor heating was the additional information that the temperature at which the heating was set is around 6 degrees – just enough to meet the UN standard & to stop ice forming on the floors?
The arena of female inmate management has the potential to assist the Department greatly in that regard – a small population within which the effects of changes made & risks taken can be assessed efficiently & effectively. In time this will show the way forward for the larger male inmate population.
It is easy when operating in the world of prisons & crime, & when faced daily with the potential that seems to exist for humans beings to hurt one another, to become focused on the negativity of the environment, the need to punish, to remind those who find their way to prison of their worthlessness. If the communities of NZ are to find a way out of the current situation of spiralling crime rates & increased societal violence, however, the Department must be prepared to help them review their perceptions of who are in our prisons & what they need to ensure they do not return a second time.
I have come to understand & be horrified by the degree to which, completely aside from the bad parenting chant that echoes across NZ every time another child dies a violent death at the hands of someone who is supposed to love & protect them, so much of the damage done in the lives of at-risk children is done by our bureaucracy & our systems – systems that purport to have the welfare of the child at heart.
Children need, on occasion, to be removed from their family for their ongoing safety & wellbeing, but it is what happens next that I take issue with – the ongoing harm done by the child protection system in the cases I have been involved in."
The power of mothers, Celia Lashlie
Land of my neighbours, Barry Pilton
"The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes."
George Eliot. Middlemarch
"The only evil in the world is the one that lies in people - in their pride, greed & duty.'
Corrag, Susan Fletcher
"We cannot change the reality of the life offenders face, but we can begin to recognise the realities of the lives they have led, & promote changes that will provoke healing instead of rage.
As I understand it, under-floor heating has been installed in at least one of the new prisons – the one in Otago – the decision having been made that given the average winter in that area, under-floor heating was the cheapest & most efficient option. But where in the media debate about the idea of under-floor heating was the additional information that the temperature at which the heating was set is around 6 degrees – just enough to meet the UN standard & to stop ice forming on the floors?
The arena of female inmate management has the potential to assist the Department greatly in that regard – a small population within which the effects of changes made & risks taken can be assessed efficiently & effectively. In time this will show the way forward for the larger male inmate population.
It is easy when operating in the world of prisons & crime, & when faced daily with the potential that seems to exist for humans beings to hurt one another, to become focused on the negativity of the environment, the need to punish, to remind those who find their way to prison of their worthlessness. If the communities of NZ are to find a way out of the current situation of spiralling crime rates & increased societal violence, however, the Department must be prepared to help them review their perceptions of who are in our prisons & what they need to ensure they do not return a second time.
I have come to understand & be horrified by the degree to which, completely aside from the bad parenting chant that echoes across NZ every time another child dies a violent death at the hands of someone who is supposed to love & protect them, so much of the damage done in the lives of at-risk children is done by our bureaucracy & our systems – systems that purport to have the welfare of the child at heart.
Children need, on occasion, to be removed from their family for their ongoing safety & wellbeing, but it is what happens next that I take issue with – the ongoing harm done by the child protection system in the cases I have been involved in."
The power of mothers, Celia Lashlie
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)