One Question Quiz

All Videos September 27, 2022

Who are prisons actually helping?

We’ve been throwing baddies behind bars in Aotearoa since around 1840 – but what if there was a better alternative? Alice speaks to a prison boss, a prison abolitionist and a former inmate about what needs to change.

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