The benefits of open prisons have been recognised for decades, says Newsroom. So why doesn’t New Zealand, where the majority of prisons are low-risk, follow international example? Open prisons aim to create conditions as close as possible to normal life. Sir Alexander Paterson, British prison commissioner from 1922 to 1947, said, “You cannot train a man for freedom under conditions of captivity.”

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