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Week of 8 Jun 2026
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Prison Corruption Network

11 items · 6 aliases · peaked week of 17 May 2026 · first seen 21 May 2026

The podcast discusses a major prison corruption bust involving multiple officers and drug smuggling, links it to a broader rise in insider threats, and criticises government departments for failing to use cost benefit analysis in infrastructure projects, calling it a sign of poor

Volume by source orientation Methodology →

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In the press Methodology →

How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 6 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.

12-week press volume 6 articles
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Heard on radio

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  • Um, the guy who's running our fuel response to the Iran War reckons petrol and diesel prices may never return to pre-crisis levels. This chap is this is Ray Smith. He used to run corrections. Happy he's not running corrections at the moment, I'd imagine. Um, he now runs the Ministry of Primary Industries, he's the DG over there, Director General. And he was at a conference and he said, When we won't run out of fuel in this country, uh, but the price will be the problem for us. And he said, even though we even once we get through all of this, the price won't easily go back to where it was before we started. Now, I I don't think he's saying forever, and I think some people have interpreted it as forever, forever is a very long time to say the prices will never go back. Clearly, there's a very good chance they do actually eventually go back there. But in terms of it being in the short term not going back there, he is probably bang on, isn't he? Because there's been lots of damage to lots of infrastructure, so it's probably going to stay elevated for a while. Um, honestly, some people are unbelievable. I reckon this has got to be the most outrageous thing that somebody's done today. There isn't well, he didn't do it today, but it's in the news today. This guy, this guy is going to court, and it's going to happen next month for stealing a camera from a man who was killed in the Bondi Beach attack. How low do you go? So this chap is a 35-year-old guy. Honestly, to look at him, you'd go, Looks like a nice guy. Really good looking guy, nice clothes, like he's a photographer, so he, you know, you'd think he's kind of a nice city kind of person. He's not going to be a thief. Well, no, watches the Bondi thing happen. 61 year old guy gets shot dead. He wanders over, grabs the guy's camera. Because the guy has a photography hobby, so he's probably got a decent camera, and this guy is a cameraman. So he takes the camera and he pawns it off a few days later for $800. What a creep. Anyway, the the coppers then raid his house. They find a camera, handcuffs, electronic devices, white crystal powder, more electronics in the cars, car, and he is facing so many charges. He's got larceny, disposing of stolen property, furnishing false information to a licensee, possessing or using a prohibited weapon without a permit and possessing and supplying drugs. And apparently, when they look through the photo the camera, they find the last few photos that the 61-year-old took while he was alive. Unreal. 626.
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waatea Government / N-A

alleged bribery undermines trust in justice system

#crime: Cash-for-Contraband Claims Rock NZ Prisons
21 May
hdpa-drive Government / N-A

systemic and alarming corruption within correctional services

Full Show Podcast: 21 May 2026
21 May
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