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Anna LeaskAnna Leask

Anna Leask is a police reporter for the New Zealand Herald. She was born in Canterbury in 1982.

The reality of women in New Zealand prisons

24 July 201724 July 2017 by Anna Leask

Herald police reporter Anna Leask takes a look inside women’s prisons, in this powerful excerpt from her new book Behind Bars. When they locked her up for the first time her baby girl wasn’t even two months old. The day she went to court for sentencing she couldn’t bear to bring her daughter with her. … Read more

Categories Books, Essay, Featured Tags prison, The Spinoff Review of Books

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