{"id":8606,"date":"2020-09-07T18:09:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T23:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=8606"},"modified":"2020-09-07T18:25:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T23:25:04","slug":"kiwirail-supports-prisoner-reintegration-with-railway-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=8606","title":{"rendered":"KiwiRail Supports Prisoner Reintegration with Railway Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Northland programme to help prisoners rejoin society by building their skills and confidence through rail work is an exciting new initiative which will benefit the community, KiwiRail Group Chief Executive Greg Miller says.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones has announced $640,000 funding for KiwiRail\u2019s \u201cSecond-Steppers\u201d programme, which will provide training and support for the reintegration of 20 prisoners back into Northland\u2019s community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGovernment investment to revitalise Northland\u2019s rail line is already supporting local businesses and creating jobs in Northland. This additional funding means KiwiRail will be able to give something more back to the community,\u201d Mr Miller says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEveryone knows how difficult it can be for prisoners to successfully reintegrate into the community. Giving them steady work, mentoring and manaaki t\u0101nga will enable them to learn new skills and assist with rebuilding their dignity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo start with, five carefully selected and vetted prisoners from Northland Region Corrections Facility, near Kaikohe, will be carrying out \u2018release to work\u2019 for us for six months. They\u2019ll each go through a special course that provides a combination of health and safety, track maintenance, and personal development training. They\u2019ll also be learning in an environment that offers Kaitohutohu (mentors) who can help support the growth of each participant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been building our workforce in Northland, and we want to bring on more local staff. This programme is designed to help up-skill the prisoners, with the intention to offer them full time work at the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cKiwiRail has a strong M\u0101ori network, and we want to inspire our next leaders and strengthen whakawhanaungatanga (relationships) with the communities around our rail operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRail will help to transform Northland and supporting prisoners to rejoin and contribute to society is a small but important part of that effort.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KiwiRail expects the first group of five prisoners to begin work at our Whangarei Rail Depot in late September\/early October. In total, 20 prisoners are expected to go through the Second-Steppers programme over the next two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KiwiRail is working with Corrections in selecting prisoners for the programme. There is a thorough pre-approval process and a number of factors are taken into account when assessing a prisoner\u2019s suitability, including the prisoner\u2019s security classification, their release and parole eligibility dates, their behaviour and potential impact on victims. Prisoners will be subject to electronic monitoring while on our sites and while travelling to and from Northland Region Corrections Facility each day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones has announced $640,000 funding for KiwiRail\u2019s \u201cSecond-Steppers\u201d programme, which will provide training and <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5637,4552,8499,5992,4957,5676,10169,10617,10458,1210,4017,10195,10171,868],"tags":[4195,10242,3781,3898,12417,1171,2020,2837,2665,688,745,5805,8321,1913,2307,12418,12419,7330,11631,6301,2510,12415,12414,12422,2029,12409,12408,12411,2169,3302,2902,310,1089,12412,12410,9510,2120,1325,8582,6857,12413,10538,12416,3454,12420,12421,3896],"class_list":["post-8606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-cargo-news","category-crime-news","category-economic-news","category-global-politics","category-international-news","category-news","category-pacifica","category-railroad","category-railroad-news","category-train-news","category-transport","category-transportation","category-transportation-news","tag-benefit","tag-businesses","tag-community","tag-confidence","tag-corrections","tag-depot","tag-development","tag-economic","tag-facility","tag-government","tag-group","tag-health","tag-initiative","tag-investment","tag-jobs","tag-kaikohe","tag-kaitohutohu","tag-kiwi","tag-kiwirail","tag-local","tag-maintenance","tag-manaaki","tag-mentoring","tag-mentors","tag-minister","tag-northland","tag-prisoner","tag-prisoners","tag-program","tag-programme","tag-rail","tag-railway","tag-regional","tag-reintegration","tag-rejoin","tag-relationships","tag-safety","tag-second","tag-skills","tag-society","tag-steppers","tag-supports","tag-tanga","tag-track","tag-whakawhanaungatanga","tag-whangarei","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8609,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8606\/revisions\/8609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}