The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, has described reports of prisoners being gassed in their cells by pepper spray at Auckland Women's prison as disturbing.
Photo: RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly
The government is asking for more information about conditions at the prison after RNZ revealed accounts of punitive treatment.
They include instances where two inmates, who were kept in a segregation unit for four months, were refused food unless they first lay face down on the ground.
Corrections says that practice is justified when the prisoner is a security risk.
Emilie Rakete from People Against Prisons Aotearoa spoke to Māni Dunlop about the revelations.
