Davis KelvinKELVIN DAVIS (Labour—Te Tai Tokerau): After the last election the Prime Minister was at pains to say to his caucus that they had to not be arrogant. Well there is one Minister whom that memo has obviously missed and that is the Minister of Corrections. The Minister who epitomises being arrogant and out of touch—in fact she sits so far up on her high horse that the saddle horn gives her a pained expression. We see it every time Stuart Nash asks her a question in question time. In May 2009 she said that National demanded accountability from Labour Ministers over what she perceived were failures by Corrections. But Ms Collins said she would not be taking the blame for any botch-ups—not immediately at least. Well it is time now that she started to take the blame for her many botch-ups. Let us explore her track record. Judith Collins was the architect of prison privatisation. I remember in 2009 walking down the main street of Kaikohe with corrections officers from Ngāwhā prison saying that if prisons are privatised we will see low pay we will see poor conditions there will be staff cuts there will be contraband brought into prisons corners will be cut and we will see increased violence and assaults. Every single prediction that those corrections officers made in 2009 came to pass. What did we see? First of all in June of last year at the select committee when the then Minister of Corrections Sam Lotu-Iiga was before us I raised the issue of fighting and assaults going on. He said to me Oh no. It doesn't happen. Serco has the best-performing prison." and that what I had been hearing was just hearsay. Well within months we saw the videos coming out of the Mt Eden Corrections Facility. We saw the fight clubs. We heard also that guards were training. The Minister stood up here in the House and in response to a question he said that they were giving the prisoners sparring tips. The guards were actually not only helping the prisoners with training but they were also betting on the outcomes of the fight clubs. A drug syndicate was being run out of the Mt Eden Corrections Facility. Family members have been extorted by prisoners on the inside. People would be sitting at home at night enjoying TV or whatever and the phone would ring and it would be an inmate a prisoner from the prison. He would say: "Here is a bank account that I want you to stick money into or else your son or your daughter will be assaulted."Guards have been caught smuggling contraband into Serco prisons—in fact we raised the issue that tobacco was being brought into Wiri Prison not long ago. I believe that there was not much of an investigation conducted. All the guards were told was that "If it is you stop it because if you're caught you will get the sack." As recently as last night I received a phone call from the family members of a prisoner saying that five cellphones in the last 5 days have been found in Wiri Prison. These days Serco in Mt Eden is nothing more than a glorified labour hire company. It just provides the labour while Corrections is running the prison. Yesterday Judith Collins said that "What we are doing now is planning for the future"—Hon Annette King: Now?KELVIN DAVIS: Now. When it said that "We are going to build a billion-dollar prison to house 1800 prisoners—what we are doing now is planning for the future." That is the problem. The Government is planning for yesterday today. That is where it has made a big mistake. The prison muster in August 2014 was 8742 prisoners which was 379 above the Government's forecasts. In October 2015 the muster was 9134. That was 501 above the Government's forecasts. As recently as last week the muster is now 9136 499 above the Government's forecasts. They are way out. By the time those prisons are built in 2 years' time they will need to build another prison. One of the reasons why we need to build so many prisons is that rehabilitation programmes in prisons simply do not work. In their own annual report they say that the programmes have results that are less than statistically significant. In other words they do not work and we are just filling up prisons with more and more prisoners and we are not getting value for our taxpayers' dollar."