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Uncovering the past: How NZ’s first prison tells a complex story of colonial identity
View of Kororareka in the Bay of Islands, 1845. Credit: George Thomas Clayton, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY New Zealand’s first prison was a simple, symmetrical four-room log building built in 1840 at Okiato in the Bay of Islands, not far from present-day Russell. But its history, especially its forgotten parts, can tell us a lot about how we have constructed…
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‘I can’t hear you smile’: How video visitation is helping a father in prison stay connected to his children
The Conversation by Elizabeth Duursma, Amy Conley Wright, Helen Simpson and Natalia Kate Hanley Many Australians know December 21 as ‘Gravy Day’. This is a reference to the Paul Kelly song and new film How to Make Gravy, in which a prisoner named Joe writes a letter to his family four days before Christmas. In it, Joe misses his wife…
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