Davis seeks prison view

Auckland: Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis is not taking a judge’s ruling that inmates at Auckland Women’s Prison were treated in a ‘‘degrading’’ and ‘‘inhumane’’ way at face value, and wants more information.

Manukau District Court Judge David McNaughton made the stinging ruling when assessing whether inmate Mihi Bassett should have her sentence extended for arson at the prison in 2019.

In his ruling Justice McNaughton said Corrections broke its own rules and regulations many times in the treatment of Bassett and another inmate.

Mr Davis said these were still allegations and he had asked Corrections for its side of the story.