It has been a momentous week for the country’s justice system and old-fashioned notions of “law and order”.
First, the Ardern government has said it is considering a report which recommends the abolition of prisons. A Maori-led review of the justice system is also urged by this report.
Second, the PM has intervened in a land dispute in Auckland and thereby over-ridden the role of the courts.
Getting rid of prisons is the remedy ingeniously proposed to reduce the high ratio of Maori inmates in our prisons.
The proposal is contained in the Ināia Tonu Nei: Māori Justice Hui report (here) released during the week.
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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