I don't understand why Corrections can't simply ask each Prison Manager how many prisoners are being monitored under self employment or any other program for that matter. It's information they should have at their fingertips at any time as a management tool to enable them to allocate the taxpayer's "considerable resources" efficiently .

I'm unable to find a comprehensible definition of key terms "Self employment" & "sentence integrity"
Defining these 2 terms is necessary to determine whether a prisoner is having his sentence administered humanely , as required by the United nations Standard Minimum Rules For The Treatment Of Prisoners.

But above these Rules there is the Human Rights Act & NZ Bill of Rights Act . As we know from the decision in Arthur Taylor vs Dept Corrections[2012] , prisoners have all the rights in these acts , except those specifically removed by Parliament. Corrections Dept has a history of making Rules & Regulations for prisoners which are illegal ( e.g. the smoking ban issue , which should have & eventually did go to Parliament to legislate on ). Corrections knows it cannot ban self employment by prisoners by law . They must be reasonable in any conditions they place on self employment. The information I have is that on many occasions they are not reasonable .

This may explain why a webpage headed "Human Rights in New Zealand prisons" makes no mention of the Human Rights Act or the NZ Bill of Rights Act.

http://www.corrections.govt.nz/resources...