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Kelvin Davis: Labour's Corrections Spokesperson on the Government's move to lower its prison population reduction topic

Published: Sept. 19, 2023, 8 p.m.

Labour's Corrections Spokesperson is unfazed by Government's move to drop its prison population reduction target. \xa0

The party has scrapped its 2017 promise to bring numbers down by 30% within 15 years.\xa0

Kelvin Davis told Mike Hosking that they were facing a prison capacity crisis in 2017, but that's changed. \xa0

He says re-sentencing rates after 12 months have dropped 11% since 2017, showing there's been a number of success stories.\xa0

Davis is fairly relaxed about the Government's position on prison numbers.\xa0

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