30 May 2001 Media Advisory

New youth unit at Christchurch Prison

Making teenagers safer in prison and reducing re-offending…

Corrections Minister Matt Robson will open a new specialist youth unit at Christchurch Prison tomorrow.

The youth unit is a self-contained facility for inmates who have been have been sentenced to prison but are being kept away from other inmates because of their age and vulnerability.

A new $3.3 million gatehouse is also being opened.

Media Note: The Youth Unit is not the same as Youth Justice Centres. They house offenders too young to be sent to prison, or who have been directed into Youth Justice Centres as an alternative to prison.

Time: 9.45 for 10 o'clock start, Thursday, 31 May 2001

Venue: Christchurch Prison, West Coast Rd Templeton

ENDS

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>