People Against Prisons Aotearoa

Tāmaki whānau, come along to this march from Aotea Square to Ellen Melville Centre on Sunday 29th March from 5PM as part of the National Day of Action against the Government's carceral and anti-homeless Move-On orders as well as housing justice! facebook.com/events/9544811…

Please sign this petition calling on the Government to develop and implement Duty to Assist legislation. our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/dema…

Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith's dismissal of officials advice that move-on orders will put vulnerable people at risk and pile hundreds more cases in courts shows that this and other failed tough on crime policies are based on weaponised fear, not facts. rnz.co.nz/news/political…

Tāmaki whānau, please head along to this event on Friday 27th March from 7PM-9PM at Ellen Melville Centre by Te Kāhui Creative Writing that's launching the book Wāhine Inside, which compiles writings by currently and formerly incarcerated wāhine. eventbrite.com/e/wahine-insid…

In addition, incarcerated people should receive the basic supplies they're legally entitled to. Please sign this petition calling on Corrections to follow the law. our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/get-…

Phones should be in every prison cell, as incarcerated people's connection with their whānau through phone calls improves their mental health and helps them prepare to reintegrate into the community after they're released from prison. nzherald.co.nz/nz/prison-phon…

The Government's legislation to ban protests outside homes will restrict our right to protest and will lead to us going down the repressive path of Australia and Britain. This bill must be scrapped. newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/26/ban…

Awatea is right: this Ministry of Justice factsheet adds to the mountain of evidence demonstrating the racism and sexism that wāhine Māori suffer under the criminal legal system. This will only end through abolition feminism as well as decolonisation. rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-k…

Please sign this petition calling on the Government to develop and implement Duty to Assist legislation: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/dema…

Aucklanders through this protest have said it loud and clear: homelessness should be addressed through providing homes and care, not through move-on orders, police brutality and incarceration. rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

Please sign this petition calling on the Government to to develop and implement Duty to Assist legislation. our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/dema…

The Government is further empowering Police to harass our most vulnerable people. Laws like this make it disgustingly clear that the only accommodation that this government is prepared to fund is prisons. rnz.co.nz/news/political…

While many Kiwis enjoy summer on the beach, for incarcerated people, summer is torture, as their prison cells turn into furnaces, while Corrections has no regulations to cool cells. This torture can end through improving prison conditions and decarceration newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/19/fee…

The Government's failed tough on crime policies are leading to them fast-tracking the construction of prisons that have worse living conditions for incarcerated people. This will keep happening until all prison expansion ends and decarceration begins. rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

While Corrections refuses to provide prompt healthcare to incarcerated people, it fails to fulfill its legal obligations to provide incarcerated people basic supplies. Please sign our petition calling on Corrections to do what it's legally required to do: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/get-…

This horrific incident is one of a mountain of cases of incarcerated people being denied prompt access to quality healthcare. Corrections' response that this happened due to staff turnover illustrates why decarceration must be implemented. rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

Dr Paula Toko King is right: prison expansion will make our communities less safe, intensify intergenerational harm and worsen the health of whānau who go to prison. The solution is ending prison expansion and engaging in decarceration. e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-an…

The Government is changing the Crimes Act to make citizens' arrests legal. Even the majority of the retail sector lobbyists are against this move. It will endanger people further and do nothing to address the drivers of low level crime, like retail theft. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/09-02…

Content warning: gender violence This horrific instance of gender violence and the cops refusal to engage in accountability illustrates how the Police are a patriarchal institution. This will only end when the Police are defunded, disarmed and disbanded. rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

Failed tough on crime models continually re-victimise and marginalise our most vulnerable. Our communities deserve a justice system where those who cause harm are held to account, those who have been harmed can heal and all of us can thrive.

Police have been found again and again to operate with systemic biases that further harm people involved in every aspect of the criminal legal system. rnz.co.nz/news/national/…