1A Life Sentence Despite being hardened by the often brutal atmosphere of prison life, prison officers were shocked at the hideous injuries Wynton Munday inflicted upon himself in Mount Eden Prison last April. A judicial inquiry into the incident has questioned whether a schizophrenic young man should have been in jail at all. Now Justice Minister Geoffrey Palmer is promising to remedy the grey area between the custodial and psychiatric requirements of some inmates.

2Running on Empty Former Labour Party MP John Kirk has been sentenced to four months periodic detention for leaving New Zealand in 1984, while still an MP, owing creditors more than $280,000. He was arrested in the United States, held in prison in Houston, Texas and then extradited to New Zealand, where he was charged under the Insolvency Act 1985. However, Kirk says he has written a book about his experiences, which he plans to have published.

3The Small Fortress During World War Two, a number of allied Prisoners of War were held, not in POW camps, but in Nazi concentration camps, against the Geneva Convention. Among then were several New Zealanders and Australians who were held at Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia. Australia's Channel Seven took two Australian servicemen back to Theresienstadt Death Camp to face their demons.