Posts by Just thinking
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"They've spent quite a bit of time learning to be good at it, and our recently built prisons rate quite well."
Ngāwhā Prison anyone?
Northland geologist Roger Brand says four years ago he warned the department that the site would be unstable and it could take years for the peat sub-soils to drain and settle. Brand predicts more cracks will appear in the prison walls.
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Collins has answered that already. Cut 300 Police cars!
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The NZDF used containers for a mobile medical unit in PNG after the Tsunami. Also used in Afghanistan.
Prisoners/humans need higher standards for accomodation and there won't be too much money for an Architech on this project I'm sure.
Prisoners don't play well with others and are likely to bang on the walls leading to ACC claims for damaged hearing & burning the interior linings out, which is why concrete is used so much.
The short term cost will be overtaken with their ongoing up keep.If it was this simple wouldn't they have moved some caravans in?
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Here's a thought.
Let's export our prisoners to some of the Pacific Islands to stimulate their ecomonies and increase guilty pleas if a PI prison was confirmed. 3months to 3yrs on a Tropical Island couldn't be too bad? :p -
There is nothing new in this idea.
"Private companies owned and operated the hulks holding prisoners bound for penal transportation."With the closure of the American Penal Colonies many of Privately owned ships were used as prisons. Then eventually those that could sail went to the Australia penal colonies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_shipsThis is very Oliver Twist.
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Key & Goff are expressing contempt for Participatory Democracy to their superior position as Representatrives in a Representative Democracy.
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It is my understanding that the one child policy only applies to the Han.
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"I'm sorry, but is it people who respond "New Zealander" who are getting confused with nationality, or is the people who wrote the question?"
Indeed, I was always raised to think of myself as a Cantabrian.
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Russell, it's the whole last minute T.I.N.A. aspect to the Auckland water front that's could leave us (NZ) with another Princess Wharf disaster.
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Point taken on Frank Kitts but one park does not make a water front.