Ghahraman GolrizGOLRIZ GHAHRAMAN (Green): The annual review reports for the Ministry of Justice Department of Corrections and New Zealand Police make for sobering reading. This is an expensive sector. It's an expensive sector to fail in. It's expensive in real terms—in terms of harm to victims to their whānau and to communities and in the broader harm to our society of having crime on the rise having more and more of our population locked up in prison—and it's also expensive in terms of the bottom line.This round of annual reviews confirms sadly that New Zealand continues to imprison people at record rates while doing that does nothing to reduce crime—in fact it does the opposite. So we have learnt that spending billions of dollars imprisoning essentially people from certain demographics—Māori and Pasifika young men—convictions have gone up for serious crime. Convictions for serious violence and sexual offending have gone up by 5 percent. Convictions for illicit drug offending have gone up by 15 percent—and we know that that's in the most serious types of drug offending. We know that in terms of offending relating to the supply manufacture or importation of methamphetamine those types of offences are about to overtake the prevalence of cannabis-type offences in our justice system. No wonder our courts are overburdened and hardly functioning. Offences relating to robbery and theft are up by 11 percent and incredibly offences relating to weapons are up by an astounding 20 percent.We keep hearing that the justice policy under the previous nine years was somehow effective but the numbers are there in black and white in these annual reviews. The backlogs are up. Prison numbers are up. Nine years of policies being adopted to make politicians look tough whilst we knew that they were making our communities less safe and costing us billions of dollars that we could have invested in policies that we knew could have reduced crime—that was callous. It's unacceptable.It's also horrifying to note that whilst we were imprisoning record numbers of people and crime was on the rise National contracted Serco a multinational corporation to run some of our busiest prisons. At Mt Eden prison this resulted—and most people will remember this because New Zealand was horrified. That correctional facility saw the rise of things like fight clubs contraband and corruption. That contract had to be terminated—a failure. But we're still under a 25-year contract for Auckland South Corrections Facility with Serco.Those types of problems didn't exist at this kind of level in New Zealand before that so-called public-private agreement to privatise our prisons—let's call a spade a spade. Our prisons are now at capacity and incredibly this report in this previous period shows that some 49 percent of people that we imprison are going to be imprisoned again within the next five years after their release—horrifying. That means—as anyone who's been at the front lines of our justice system like I've been and anyone who's working in corrections knows—our prisons no longer have the staffing capacity or resource to provide proper rehabilitative programmes for the people that we do detain.We don't have programmes sufficient to provide drug and alcohol treatment mental health care anger management treatment or literacy programmes. So people aren't getting paroled because they can't do their courses and we're holding them for longer but then we're releasing them without actually helping them to be rehabilitated fit to join society at a low-risk of reoffending. That is ineffective and it is a failure and these reports show it.So instead of actually providing for services out in the community that we know actually stop crime like mental health care before people offend like drug and alcohol treatment before people reoffending that Government—[Time expired]Reports relevant to the Justice Sector noted.