John Robson in Podcasts
personJohn Robson, Secretary for Justice during the second national government, involved in prison reforms.
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The killer debating team from Paremoremo Prison
Prisons are a completely different world now to what they were. During the second national government with Ralph Hannon, Minister of Justice, and John Robson, Dr John Robson, the Secretary for Justice, they liberalised the prison system from the 1950s, lock them up and leave them. They wanted to liberalise and make New Zealand prison system the most advanced system.