Two alcohol and drug courts have saved $28.7 million in prison costs over a six year pilot. Reporter Teuila Fuatai spent a day in one of the courts, and got an inside view of what could be one answer to NZ’s unsustainable prison system.
With more than 10,000 people behind bars and total prison costs expected to top $1 billion next year, politicians are desperate for ways to rein in the corrections system.
The problems sometimes seem intractable, the financial and human costs ever-increasing.
But far from the halls of power and policy summits, one approach being employed to stop people offending and going back to prison has had some real success.
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Published in Newsroom, October 12, 2018
