Interesting Statistics
Today's Sunday Star Times had an article about the number of foreigners in New Zealand Prisons. Not included in the on-line version of the article is a table showing the country the prisoners were from. (Provided by Corrections.)
Interestingly, "England" and the "United Kingdom" had separate lines on the table. And I always thought the UK included England.
To be fair, Corrections Job is to lock up criminals - not be experts on Geography.
01/05/2006 Update - here is a scan of the incorrect Corrections table:
Interestingly, "England" and the "United Kingdom" had separate lines on the table. And I always thought the UK included England.
To be fair, Corrections Job is to lock up criminals - not be experts on Geography.
01/05/2006 Update - here is a scan of the incorrect Corrections table:
posted by Michael at
11:01 PM
1 Comments:
Those figures just can't be accurate. They don't include anybody from Europe, eastern Europe, most of Africa including Zimbabwe etc nor anybody from anywhere in South America. I know that several people from known African countries are currently behind bars but perhaps these people having thrown their passports away aren't put on this list.
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steven, at 1:55 AM
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