Ryan Bridge: Another dodgy story from Corrections

This prison escape story is fishy as hell.

And in the week of cover ups and ass-covering, this walks, talks, and quacks like another one.

On Friday last week at 9am, an inmate escapes Mt Eden prison.

Kerre Woodham: Why don't we focus the headlines on the good news?

There is a common trope that if prisons worked, we wouldn't need them. And that if prison was a deterrent, people wouldn't commit crime. If prison was about rehabilitation then people would serve their term and then they would not reoffend.