Total number of cannabis related imprisonments & prison population numbers

Luke Chandler made this Official Information request to Department of Corrections

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From: Luke Chandler

Dear Department of Corrections,

Please provide the following information;

The prison population for cannabis related offences

AND

New Zealand prison population data since 1990 (i.e the total number of inmates, back to 1990 if possible)

Yours faithfully,
Luke Chandler

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Dear Mr Chandler

 

Please find attached the Department of Corrections response to your email
of 16 December 2016.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Ministerial Services

Department of Corrections Ara Poutama Aotearoa

Mayfair House | 44-52 The Terrace |  Private Box 1206 | Wellington

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