Prison

The new government says its tougher-on-crime approach will see up to 400 more people sent to prison in the coming year. But the union representing corrections workers says it is already facing chronic… Audio

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio

The Detail looks at what happens when sex offenders go to rehabilitation - does it work? Audio

The new documentary Ithaka documents 76-year-old John Shipton's campaign to free his son, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Shipton joins the show to discuss Ithaka and why he'll never give up on his… Video, Audio

Pregnant Kiwi journalist Charlotte Bellis feels let down by her country after failing to gain an MIQ spot and being forced to seek safe refuge in Afghanistan as she awaits the birth of her first… Audio

Oscar Pistorius was back in the headlines this week after he moved closer to Reeva Steenkamp's family ahead of reconciliation talks that could lead to his early release from prison. Journalist Tim… Audio

There's a reading revolution happening in Aotearoa; a community initiative where people are coming together (albeit by Zoom right now) to read literature aloud and chat about whatever a story or poem… Audio

British thriller writer Adam Hamdy's new novel Red Wolves has seen the writer go deep behind the scenes in the name of research. He joins the show to discuss Red Wolves and how his own life… Audio

The Corrections Minister is defending a major decrease in the number of prisoners going through drug and alcohol rehabilitation programmes.

The number of inmates getting treatment has fallen from… Audio

Socialite Jasmine Hartin has been charged with manslaughter by negligence after, she says, accidentally shooting police superintendent Henry Jemmott in Belize. Journalist Tom Leonard recently… Audio

George Wilder is an accidental folk hero. He never sought the spotlight, but his three escapes from prison in the 1960s made him a national sensation. Black Sheep investigates his story. Audio

Danish native Torbjørn 'Thor' Pedersen is on a mission to visit every nation in the world in a single journey, without taking a single flight. We last spoke to him in September 2020, and over six… Audio

Six and a half years ago, 'Thor' Pedersen set out on a mission to visit every nation in the world in a single journey, without taking a single flight. But he has been trapped in Hong Kong for the last… Audio

Recently-retired criminology professor Dr Greg Newbold built his 30-plus year academic career on a base of personal experience - courtesy of a seven-and-a-half year jail sentence for selling heroin.

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A young Rangi Pou was on the cusp of adolescence when his father said it was time he become a man and fend for himself. For Pou, that meant growing up on the streets, getting involved in the world of… Audio