Amanda Hill

A lawyer for most of the clients currently being kept in New Zealand's only extreme-threat prison unit says the Corrections department wants to change the law to allow human rights abuses to… Audio

A lawyer for most of the clients kept in New Zealand's only extreme-risk prison unit, says the destruction of records and lack of record keeping is of concern. Audio

Prison officers want access to tasers, patrol dogs, and pepper balls to help control dangerous situations. Audio

Corrections may have to re-open Arohata women's prison, after a damning High Court judgment that it broke the law and discriminated against women.

The prison was effectively closed to sentenced… Audio

National's ignoring the weight of evidence against enforced military-style camps for young offenders.

That's according to a lawyer representing survivors of some of the country's worst cases of abuse… Audio

A Wellington lawyer specialising in privacy issues says security guards taking photos of children appears to be an intimidation tactic.

The private security company Cityguard has admitted its staff… Audio

An Oxford University report, commissioned by the Human Rights Commission, has highlighted the problems with law surrounding solitary confinement in our prisons. Jesse speaks to lawyer, Amanda Hill. Audio

A man who suffered horrific abuse while wrongly being held in psychiatric care in the 1970s, died shortly before getting the chance to tell his story.

The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in… Audio

A Lawyer representing a former state wards says the Crown might end up spending more than a million dollars trying to keep her case out of court. Audio