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New Zealand: prison pay rates need reform, advocates say
Incarcerated people' pay rates need to be increased, say reform advocates, who have labelled the current rates of 20 to 60 cents an hour as practically slave labour. The rates have not been touched for 20 years.
Source: RNZ (10/02/2025)