News that people locked up in the Masterton Police Station are offered solely instant noodles to eat for lunch and dinner has come as a surprise to one of New Zealand's leading victims' rights advocates.
Garth McVicar, head of Sensible Sentencing Trust, said it was surprising the station would offer nothing other than noodles to people spending time in its cells.
"I'm certainly a believer in firm and hard justice, but I am a believer in justice, and part of that is that people get fed adequately," he said.
"I don't want there to be five course meals in prison, and I don't even necessarily think there should be three square meals a day, but there should be three adequate meals a day."
He added that he didn't know the specifics of the case, but that there should be food standards and they should be met.