Davis Kelvin: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeDavis Kelvin: General Debate[Sitting date: 22 July 2015. Volume:707;Page:5203. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]KELVIN DAVIS (Labour—Te Tai Tokerau): Today I have to talk about the ongoing scandal at Serco. Today I am calling for a police investigation into the death of Nick Evans. Today the Minister of Corrections has confirmed that Nick Evans was treated at Mt Eden prison before he was transferred up to Ngāwhā prison. Yesterday it was all about: “Put up or shut up Kelvin Davis. Put up or shut up. You don’t have any evidence.” Well today exhibit A is the Minister himself on Sean Plunket’s show when he said—where he admitted—exactly what he denied yesterday which was that Nick Evans was treated at Mt Eden prison before he was transferred up to Ngāwhā.What sort of organisation I ask transfers somebody who is so ill? He had a ruptured lung. Imagine the pain that man must have been in. When he got to Ngāwhā it is alleged that he was so ill he could not walk. It is alleged that it was just obvious he was damaged goods. What sort of organisation allows a person to be transferred for 3 or 4 hours in that sort of condition? According to my sources there is no way that those injuries could have happened in transit but they would have been exacerbated in transit.New Zealanders around the country have been horrified to learn about what is going on at Serco. My in-box has been inundated. My texts and my Facebook have been inundated with people who want to tell their story or the story of their son or daughter who has been inside under Serco.Today I would like to reveal new details about life on the inside given to me by a former inmate who is one of my many sources. In fact today at the Law and Order Committee I tried to get answers by asking the select committee to invite the head of Serco to give us a briefing around his organisation. That was blocked by National. The New Zealand First member tried to get an investigation into what is happening at Serco. That was all blocked. This is the National Party being soft on Serco.But let me tell you what I have been told today. The former inmate said that gang violence—and I need to say this because the Minister himself does not know what is going on in his portfolio and in the prisons that he is responsible for. This former inmate said he believes the gang violence and the droppings are isolated in two units primarily. The Delta unit is where the accused are held on remand. He said: “I’ve spoken to other inmates who tell me that as soon as they enter the unit they are dragged into a cell and beaten and extorted for information about assets that they have on the outside.” Alpha unit—he said that is the gang unit. It is supposed to be the worst unit in Mt Eden. He said: “I know a lot of the dangerous criminals are put into segregation units when they are not supposed to be.” People who are vulnerable go into segregation but he said that “some of the most dangerous criminals go into segregation. They don’t qualify for segregation but they put them there anyway.”Charlie and Foxtrot units are both segregation units and by all accounts they are completely safe but the mainstream units are operated by gangs. He said: “The Killer Beez run all the gang units generally and as soon as the door opens they line up and drag the inmate into a cell.” I asked him: “What do you mean ‘as soon as the door opens’.”? He said: “The main door to the unit opens when new prisoners come in and the inmate is just pushed in”—and these are his words—“and left to the dogs because it’s just too unsafe for the screws to enter. They never use their take-down team. They just let the unit run itself.”Get this—he said that invariably you can hear banging all night from two storeys below from Delta unit because down there the inmates are getting drunk. He went on to explain how they actually make their alcohol. He explained how they get drugs. He explained a whole heap of things. And this is going on in the Serco prison. Yesterday I was told to put up or shut up. Like I say my exhibit A was in fact the Minister on Sean Plunket’s show on Radio Live today where he basically admitted everything that I alleged yesterday. Thank you.