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GUEST BLOG: Jackie Foster – Budget Cuts: The Real Impact on New Zealand’s Corrections System
Recent budget cut suggestions to the Ministries of Justice and Corrections by the government will only increase existing problems like …
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GUEST BLOG: Jackie Foster – Beyond Punishment: A Swedish-Inspired Approach to Corrections Reform in New Zealand
Corrections Minister Mark Mitchell’s proposal to scrap short prison sentences in favour of longer ones is an approach that ignores decades of criminological research and the success of evidence-based rehabilitation models, particularly Sweden’s.
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GUEST BLOG: Jackie Foster – Why a Royal Commission of Inquiry Is Crucial: Lessons from Arthur Allan Thomas and Alan Hall
New Zealand prides itself on upholding justice and fairness, yet cases like those of Arthur Allan Thomas and Alan Hall expose significant failings within our legal and law enforcement systems.
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GUEST BLOG: Jackie Foster – TRIAL BY PUBLIC OPINION!
It really is a sad day when personal issues are brought into politics, but naming and shaming seems to…
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GUEST BLOG: Jackie Foster – If I’m ok, that’s all that matters
For me the blogging and advocacy journey started when I saw disgraceful policing, the supreme court asleep and a government department that…
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GUEST BLOG: Jackie Foster – ORANGA TAMARIKI A SUCESSIVE FAILURE
We all remember the Hon Anne Tolley, the then minister of CYFS say “It’s important our vulnerable…
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GUEST BLOG: Jackie Foster – Allan Hall Petition
Social Justice Aotearoa has created a petition seeking a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the wrongful conviction…
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GUEST BLOG: Jackie Foster – HOW DOES THIS GOVERNMENT STACK UP
Without digging to deeply, it only took a matter of hours from being sworn in for the nation to start seeing fractures appear within the coalition.
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Crown prosecution reliability brought into question again
How can the public of New Zealand have faith in the criminal justice system when the honesty, openness and…
