Monday, July 31, 2006

[New Zealand] Jailers shrug off blog from behind bars / NZ Herald, 31 Jul 2006

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10393785
Paula Oliver
"The Corrections Department is powerless to stop a prisoner's internet blog about life behind bars, and doesn't see anything wrong with it anyway. Tim Selwyn has used a web log to criticise the judge who sentenced him and to write details of the jailyard assault of a prisoner.
The site says Selwyn, jailed this month after a rare sedition - inciting rebellion against the state - conviction as well as on fraud charges, will write regular instalments about life behind bars during his 17-month sentence. National MP Simon Power has called on Corrections to stop Selwyn's "travelogue", but the department's chief executive, Barry Matthews, yesterday said that he had no intention of doing that."