Showing posts with label Maori Rangatahi Resistance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maori Rangatahi Resistance. Show all posts
5/19/08
10/26/07
dedicated to tame iti and tona ropu rama
Commentary on the recent invasion into Tuhoe to get the whanau Tame Iti and Rama.
We are freedom fighters not terrorists . there is a difference
8/18/07
Gang photos from jail on internet site
Jailed members of an Auckland street gang are using cellphones smuggled into prison to send out photos of themselves.
Supporters of the JCBs - Juvanyle Crip Boys - are posting the photos on the internet and calling for jailed members, in prison for violence offences, to be freed.
The Weekend Herald has obtained a photo of a member of the JCBs taken inside Mt Eden Prison, and others of JCBs members in custody in court cells.
There are also photos of JCBs members with guns, and partying with Black Power members.
A newborn baby is shown wrapped in JCB gang regalia, and one photo shows members of an associated South Auckland street gang posing with Prime Minister Helen Clark.
The photos are being circulated among a network of four South Auckland street gangs called the "Crip Family", and some are on the Bebo social networking website.
Corrections Minister Damien O'Connor yesterday said the JCBs prison photo was outrageous.
He said the Government would next week announce "jamming technology" that stopped cellphones working in prisons.
Mr O'Connor conceded Corrections was having trouble keeping cellphones out of prisons.
A prisoner in Rimutaka jail was yesterday alleged to have been using smuggled phones to mastermind importing $1 million worth of drugs from Thailand.
National Party justice spokesman Simon Power said Corrections' ineptitude was "helping glamorise people who don't take the justice system seriously".
The department said it would investigate the photo of the JCBs member.
Helen Clark said the photo of her arm-in-arm with gang members was "most disturbing".
It shows her with two teenagers who are doing a "Crips" hand signal, and has been posted on the internet titled "Cripn' Clark".
The teenager to the Prime Minister's left is wearing a TNS - Thugs Not Soldiers - cap. The TNS are also in the Crip Family.
A spokeswoman for Helen Clark said the photo was taken in March, while she was visiting a "family fun day" in an Otahuhu Housing NZ neighbourhood.
"She is most disturbed to hear that someone has tried to take advantage of that."
Jurors sent on a mission
A judge has ordered a jury to "go back and make South Auckland a safer place" after it let eight JCBs walk free for a gang attack that nearly killed a teenager.
Chief Manukau District Court Judge Charles Blackie said it was a "tragedy" that juries were being called upon more and more frequently to listen to cases of street gang violence.
South Auckland was becoming more and more dangerous, and the violence had to be curbed - "otherwise you are going to see more and more people who come within an inch of losing their life".
The trial, which ended last month, was for an October 2005 attack in a Mangere Park where up to 15 JCBs took to three teenagers with a baseball bat, steel bar, hammer, machete and lengths of wood. One of the victims was left paralysed and unable to speak.
The jury acquitted all eight JCBs who went to trial for the attack. Other gang members had earlier admitted their involvement.
Six JCBs were convicted this year for their part in a night of violence that cost $2.5 million to investigate.
Message To RBG Family From RBG SS: "Revolutionary Warfare"
5/27/07
Prisoners take to the roof of Rimutaka Prison
PRISON BREAK: Dramatic scenes unfolded at troubled Rimutaka Prison in Upper Hutt yesterday, when about 15 rioting inmates took control of the prison's youth unit for about five hours
Five and a half hour rampage by prisoners in Wellington's Rimutaka prison has been brought under control.
Fifteen inmates from its youth unit have spent much of the day on the prison's roof after causing thousands of dollars worth of damage during a cell riot.
Police and ambulance attended the scene and the jail was locked down while the incident was being controlled.
General Manager of Operations Bryan McMurray says there has been some damage to the prison and one prisoner was slightly injured.
Mr McMurray says Corrections will consider pressing charges against the nine prisoners believed to have caused damage to the jail.
http://www.tv3.co.nz/VideoBrowseAll/NationalVideo/tabid/309/articleID/27751/Default.aspx#video
Youth offenders on rampage at Rimutaka Prison
Rimutaka Prison was again plunged into chaos today as inmates took control of a section of a youth offenders unit, causing the lockdown of the entire prison.
The incident began this morning in the youth unit, understood to hold up to 40 teenaged inmates, and Department of Corrections general manager operations Bryan McMurray said staff were forced to take control of one section.
During the incident at the prison north of Wellington, understood to involve about 15 inmates, several made their way on to the roof of a building and had to be talked down, ending the longer than five-hour incident.
Mr McMurray said the prisoners damaged buildings and police were called in give back-up to Corrections staff.
"Our first priority was to maintain public safety by securing the prisoners and preventing further damage to buildings.
"We have achieved this, all the prisoners are now secured and charges will be considered for all the offenders in this incident."
He said no staff were injured and because the offenders were confined to the unit, there was no risk to the public.
Mr McMurray described such incidents as a "reality" for prisons worldwide.
The incident would be fully investigated.
Rimutaka Prison has been plagued by problems this year, and rival Black Power and Mongrel Mob-aligned youths rioted in April causing thousands of dollars worth of damage.
In March, 11 staff were stood down pending investigations into corruption and smuggling.
The same month Corrections Department regional manager Dave East was put on special leave facing claims of mismanagement at Rimutaka.
It was also revealed convicted rapist Peter Mana McNamara, 37, managed to father a son while serving seven years in the prison.
Four guard were also suspended following allegations a convicted rapist was allowed conjugal visits while receiving medical care at Wellington Hospital.
This month the Employment Relations Authority ordered the prison to reinstate a prison officer who allegedly assaulted an inmate, finding there was insufficient evidence to fire the guard.
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