David Clendon

Former Green Party MP

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This beggars belief. The govt's post-release rehab strategy seems to be to shrug and say 'not our problem'. https://t.co/hlDc4nOJw6

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@tweetymagpie1 Govt to spend $1billion on new cells, while mental health, drug/alcohol, reintegration & rehab services all under-funded. Makes no sense!

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https://t.co/9gYhxk12F1
There is no panacea; it'll take a decade of determined investment in real solutions to lower the prison population.

[NZ Drug Foundation @nzdrug]

While people debate how much the health budget has changed we do know this: annually 50,000 NZers who want addiction treatment dont get it

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👏 sort 👏 it 👏 out 👏 Bill 👏 https://t.co/iTFJpfZTY6

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If you're in Invercargill and interested in green business, join me for breakfast at Meccaspresso tomorrow morning! https://t.co/pwLdCRGrCa

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Some much-needed good news https://t.co/MUnb77zLeU

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The continuing neglect of New Zealand's environment is a National disgrace. #budget2017

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#budget2017 A $392 million capital boost for schools, $763 million more for prisons. Social investment? Really? https://t.co/6AVQvpgW5x

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Keep that in mind when we see the Justice budget today. There are #abillionbetterthings than a new prison - and Nats just dumped one of them

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Instead it's being dumped - while National refuses to get rid of blasphemy offence in the same Bill because it "needs wide consultation"

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Sentencing Council would certainly be far cheaper and more effective than building another prison or getting Serco in

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The Sentencing Council could have been one key part of our efforts to address systemic discrimination and unconscious bias in justice system

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Labour were voted out before they had a chance to establish the Council, and National had no interest in doing it. Which brings us to 2017

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Things have not gotten better since then. In 2011, 51% of people imprisoned were Māori; in June 2016, that number was 50.8%.

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Sir Pita Sharples said at the time that the Council was a key measure for addressing Māori mass incarceration + unconscious bias in Courts

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The SCA was passed by Labour in 2007. A panel of Judges would develop sentencing guidelines, ensuring consistency across Courts

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A Budget day tweetstorm. On Tuesday, I tried to get the Sentencing Council Act removed from the Statutes Repeal Bill https://t.co/AKXTW4xQIi

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Heaven forbid we introduce a taonga levy on tourists and look like a "rip-off", though, right?
https://t.co/jww8b3X0Pv

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Kim Workman (@rethinkingcrime) is absolutely right: the 25% target was always a useful, and absurd, fiction https://t.co/mZPsPOWZO3