People Against Prisons Aotearoa

We are holding our 10th annual holiday card drive! We’ll be sending holiday cards to hundreds of incarcerated people. We rely on the volunteer support from everyday people to get this important mahi done - if you can this year, please consider donating here: givealittle.co.nz/cause/send-p...

This role would require you to be based in Auckland, with frequent trips to the CBD. If you are interested, please sign up here: forms.gle/zJRavFEvNMSR...

Kia ora koutou! We need some new lovely volunteers to scan and send mail to people in prison to ensure that they can remain connected to the outside world. If you are interested, please sign up here: forms.gle/zJRavFEvNMSR...

A major reason why the Police must not be granted further surveillance powers is they use them to terrorise communities, as in this patriarchal case. This will only stop when the Police are disarmed, defunded and disbanded. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/auc...

The Police's new number plate scanning technology will result in privacy breaches, further erode our civil liberties and lead to more racist, classist, sexist and ageist harassment by Police. To stop this, Police must be banned from using this technology. www.1news.co.nz/2026/09/11/g...

The Police in Aotearoa must be disarmed. Kaoss Price's whānau and loved ones are still fighting for justice, four years on from when he was killed by Police. New Zealand Police kill 11 times more people than police in the UK, and 4 times more than in Australia. www.teaonews.co.nz/2026/09/07/r...

Reminder: PAPA members, our Annual General Meeting will be happening on Saturday 29th August from 1PM-4PM online via Zoom. Please check the 21st August all-members email in your inbox or spam to register to attend the AGM and to nominate yourself for a National Organising Committee role.

Reminder: PAPA members, our Annual General Meeting will be happening on Saturday 29th August from 1PM-4PM online via Zoom. Please check the 21st August all-members email in your inbox or spam to register to attend the AGM and to nominate yourself for a National Organising Committee role.

The seclusion of disabled people in hospitals is solitary confinement by another name, which is a form of torture. This torture will only end when seclusion and all other forms of solitary confinement are banned. www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/...

PAPA members, our Annual General Meeting will be happening on Saturday 29th August from 1PM-4PM online via Zoom. Please check the 21st August all-members email in your inbox or spam to register to attend the AGM and to nominate yourself for a National Organising Committee role.

Doubling Paremoremo's prison size through being fast-tracked will lead to further human rights violations of incarcerated people and will intensify the pollution of the local environment. The alternative is decarceration and justice reinvestment. newsroom.co.nz/2026/07/23/t...

This is the latest in a long list of cases of the Police protecting men who have sexually assaulted women, as the cops exist to reproduce patriarchal and colonial capitalism through violence. This will only end when we disarm, defund and disband the Police. www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-a...

Caleb's whānau are seeking justice for his murder at the hands of Police, four years later. www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-a...

Tāmaki whānau, we're holding our 2026 Matariki Holidard Card Drive today at the Ellen Melville Centre on the upper floor until 4PM. Come through to help write cards to our incarcerated whānau this Matariki!

Come along and write a card to our whānau in prison, alongside others in your community. Kai and refreshments provided. Just drop in anytime for as long as you like. All are welcome.

Tāmaki Makaurau whānau, come along to our Matariki Holiday Card Drive on Sunday 21st June from 12PM at the Ellen Melville Centre with Sunday Blessings. We are inviting people to come together and share some new year hope with those behind bars this Matariki. www.facebook.com/events/35043...

We're proud to endorse @greenpeacenz.bsky.social and Anti-War Aotearoa's March For Peace on Saturday 20th June from 12PM at Aotea Square that's calling on the Government to delink from American capitalist imperialism and adopt a Te-Tiriti grounded independent foreign policy. marchforpeace.nz

Anti-Children Minister Karen Chhour's refusal to divulge how many rangatahi are still in the bootcamps is the latest effort by the Government to cover up how these bootcamps have been a total and utter failure like every previous attempt has been. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...