Chester Borrows

A report released by the Safe and Effective Justice advisory Group show that racism is embedded in every area of the criminal justice system. It also found the treatment of family and sexual violence… Audio

The head of the government's Criminal Justice Reform Panel is questioning claims from the National Party about serious crime being on the rise.

National leader Simon Bridges says a rise in serious… Audio

There are widespread concerns that probation officers are not writing good enough reports to help judges determine if someone should go to prison, or how long they should stay there. About 30,000… Audio

Politicians have been urged to stick to the facts when it comes to crime. That was the message from a crowd of about 200 at a meeting of the Safe and Effective Justice programme's advisory group in… Audio

Politicians have been told to stop treating law and order issues as a political football. About 200 people attended a meeting of the Safe and Effective Justice programme's advisory group in Wellington… Audio

The Parliament Finance committtee had to be unceremoniously cancelled with MPs on both sides trading barbs on whose fault it was.  Audio

Former MP Chester Borrows wants to double the amount of money prisoners receive when they get out of jail ... but is there political will for such an idea? Audio

One of the reasons the New Year news is so thin is that there’s not much politics to report. So it was  fitting the the news drought prompted two politicians to weigh in on the media. Audio

Accusations have been flying this week that Parliament's Speaker of the House, Trevor Mallard, has been showing signs of political preference. The role of the Speaker is supposed to be strictly… Audio

Chester Borrows and members of the Safe and Effective Justice Advisory Group hold their first first public discussion on Monday 15 October in Papatoetoe, Auckland, at 9.30am. Borrows is the group's… Audio

The chair of the government's new criminal justice advisory group says politics is holding back criminal justice reform. The Justice Minister Andrew Little has picked the former National MP Chester… Audio

National's "lefty" MP Chester Borrows says goodbye to the House after 12 years as an MP. Audio

Retiring MP Chester Borrows describes himself as a loyal old Labrador and is proud of what he's achieved but says he might have achieved more if he was prickly and gorsy.  Video, Audio

Whanganui MP Chester Borrows has been found not guilty of a charge of careless driving at an incident at an anti-TPP protest last year. Video, Audio