The Mike Hosking Breakfast

Mike Williams: No option but to tear down Waikeria Prison


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A penal reform organisation believes there's no option but to bowl part of Waikeria Prison.
Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis will deliver his verdict on the fate of the ageing jail this afternoon.
Howard League chief executive, Mike Williams told Mike Hosking the area that's known as the 'top prison' was built over 100 years ago.
"It was mothballed but then with the prison numbers rising parts of it are in use. What I would like to hear is that particular jail is bowled and replaced with something like a 500 bed modern jail."
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