Number of Prisoners with History of State Care
Kendra Cox made this Official Information request to Department of Corrections
The request was refused by Department of Corrections.
From: Kendra Cox
Department of Corrections,
Please provide information on how many people currently serving custodial or community sentences have been in the care of the Chief Executive (also called 'state care') as children or young people, under either care and protection or youth justice orders.
Please provide this information over the last five years.
Please organise this information by ethnicity and region.
Yours faithfully,
Kendra Cox
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Department of Corrections
Good afternoon
Please find attached correspondence from the Department Of Corrections.
Kind regards,
Ministerial Services
Department of Corrections Ara Poutama Aotearoa
Mayfair House | 44-52 The Terrace | Private Box 1206 | Wellington
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Kendra Cox left an annotation ()
Corrections refused to answer this request, stating it is out of their scope to answer and that they do not hold all of this information.
However, research done by Corrections nearly a decade ago showed that they do collect this information - the huge majority of a birth cohort of incarcerated people had a history of state care. This information was not published but was released under OIA earlier this year: https://fyi.org.nz/request/9568-child-pr...
I'm not sure if reformulating this question will help Corrections answer - any thoughts would be appreciated!
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