We share the Government’s and the New Zealand Police’s desire to improve the safety of our communities for all our people.

It’s not every day that the Minister for Justice talks about the system that he oversees as “taking wrecked lives and wrecking them just a little bit more”.

It's 2019, and treating people deprived of their liberty with basic human respect shouldn't be something we have to request of our government agencies - it should be a given.

JustSpeak is teaming up with The Workshop on a project looking at how to effectively talk about criminal justice reform in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Today's report by the Waitangi Tribunal should be the final word on the prison voting ban.

JustSpeak is a non-partisan, independent network of people across Aotearoa seeking to change the conversation on criminal justice in New Zealand.

In the middle of May seventy people who mostly didn’t know each other came together at Ellen Melville Hall in central Auckland to talk about justice.

Nowadays, very little about the criminal justice system in New Zealand surprises me.

In order to make the transformational change sorely needed, parties across the political spectrum must work together and commit to a compassionate, evidence-based justice system

“Where are Māori? I can't see Māori representation, yet the opening address is about Māori in jail. If we are 52 per cent of the prison population, why aren't we 52 per cent of the people speaking?"

What does a public consultation on the justice system feel like?

We are calling on the Government to enshrine voting rights for all people who are incarcerated.

The criminal justice system is an establishment built on binaries; “good people” and “bad people”, victim and offender, male and female.

JustSpeak and Mahi Tahi Akoranga Trust came together to organise a Kaupapa Māori hui on transformative change in criminal justice which took place in mid-July this year.

Congratulations Dr Kim Workman on your second, much deserved, honorary doctorate.

New Zealanders have their own stories, their own experiences of the criminal justice system.

Check out Te Kahu Rolleston perform his poetry at JustSpeak's forum 'Prison: A Moral & Fiscal Failure?' on 30 November 2016.

Nine months after announcing that they will consider raising the age of youth justice, the Government is yet to make a decision.