10 Dec 2020

HRC calling for Māori to be consulted: seclusion in prison

From Midday Report, 12:14 pm on 10 December 2020

The Human Rights Commissioner says Māori should be consulted about how prisons can stop disproportionately secluding and restraining tangata whenua.

Māori women made up 78 per cent of all stays in the most restrictive form of segregation in prisons.

Tracey McIntosh, a professor of Indigenous Studies at Auckland University

Photo: RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly

Tracey McIntosh is a criminologist and professor of indigenous studies at the University of Auckland.

She spoke to Māni Dunlop.