Labour MP Kelvin Davis has claimed that a prisoner who was thought to have died from a superbug had severe injuries that could only have been caused by violent abuse within jail.
The Labour MP made the allegation during an urgent debate in Parliament on fighting and drug use within the Serco-managed Mt Eden Corrections Facility, which came to light last week in videos published on social media.
"I'm told on good authority that there is a practice in Mt Eden Correctional Facility that is called 'dropping', where ... new prisoners ... are sized up by gangs, they're bashed up, and they're dropped off the balconies onto the concrete below for good measure."
Corrections Minister Sam Lotu-Iiga defended Serco's performance by saying that prisoner-on-prisoner assaults were higher in publicly-managed prisons and that contraband smuggling was a nationwide problem.
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