Nobody has been in those places for more than a month, its 2 weeks.
The 'escapees' so far have been an alcoholic (went to the nearest bottle store) and a couple of people with mental issues.
The REASON those people escaped is because the places aren't prisons, or even close. They were hotels, high quality hotels in some places...with no police presence at all...
There was a bunch of fuss made by the public because it was eventually realised that people were being allowed out without testing to attend funerals under a compassionate exemption.
Your description makes it sound like something very different to the reality.
Its toughening up a little now, because everyone in NZ wanted them to toughen up, but for a long while the reality was that all you had to do to leave was decide that you wanted to leave.
Most people didn't, of course, because most people aren't dicks.
Nobody has been in those places for more than a month, its 2 weeks.
The 'escapees' so far have been an alcoholic (went to the nearest bottle store) and a couple of people with mental issues.
The REASON those people escaped is because the places aren't prisons, or even close. They were hotels, high quality hotels in some places...with no police presence at all...
There was a bunch of fuss made by the public because it was eventually realised that people were being allowed out without testing to attend funerals under a compassionate exemption.
Your description makes it sound like something very different to the reality.
Its toughening up a little now, because everyone in NZ wanted them to toughen up, but for a long while the reality was that all you had to do to leave was decide that you wanted to leave.
Most people didn't, of course, because most people aren't dicks.