Private Business, Public Failure

Crime, Current Affairs, New Zealand|2016|PG

As New Zealand's prison population hits 10,000 - one of the highest imprisonment rates in the western world - the Stuff Circuit team investigates, asking why and what are conditions like inside? The team goes inside some of the country's toughest jails, and discovers what happened in the Fight Club scandal when inmates were caught filming brutal fights and streaming them to the internet. The series features interviews with some of the leaders of the prison system, campaigners, and inmates themselves, and asks, is there a better way?

Episode 1: Promises Made

New Zealand's prison system is locking up people at an alarming rate, and violence is rife. Stuff Circuit investigates.

Episode 2: The First Rule of Fight Club

The biggest scandal in the prison system for years a bloodletting captured on camera and resulting in heads rolling.

Episode 3: The Private Battle

Privatisation of the prison system leads to political sacrifices, and masks other dangerous problems.

Episode 4: The Life and Death of Ricky Sellar

The death of a prisoner uncovers a wider, alarming problem in the prison system.

Episode 5: The Jailer

The boss of the country's prison system fronts up to answer questions from Stuff Circuit.

Episode 6: Another Way

Why does New Zealand keep locking people up at such a high rate? Could there be other answers?

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