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It costs a million dollars a day to keep low-risk defendants on remand. More prisons aren’t the answer

By Antje Deckert, Associate Professor in Criminology, Auckland University of Technology
Budget 2026 spends $503 million on expanding prisons. But 41% of the prison population are people on remand and more than half are released once their case is heard.The Conversation


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