Greens think prisoners are the victims!

The Herald reported:

The Greens’ Tamatha Paul has expressed “regret” about a claim she made on social media that the “vast majority” of people in prison are there for non-violent offences that they’ve “had to do as a response to poverty”. 

Police and Corrections Minister Mark Mitchell has described comments in her video as “total nonsense” and an “insult” to New Zealanders who have been victimised by those in prison.

The Greens would have you think people go to prison for shoplifting etc.

She went on to say most people are in prison because of disabilities, conditions like fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, and undiagnosed autism or ADHD. 

“They’re being punished for being disabled, they’re being punished for being poor, they’re being punished for being Māori, they’re being punished for our system that we have in our country.”

Again they think the criminals are the victims.

They’re not being punished for being poor or disabled etc etc. They are being punished because they bashed someone or raped someone or robbed someone etc etc.