Corrections cuts phone call time in prison to 30 minutes day

Corrections is slashing the amount of time prisoners can spend on jail phones talking to their whanau, and said some inmates have been abusing the system, resorting to violence and stand over tactics to monopolise the phone. Currently, prisoners make free calls to approved numbers for up to three hours a day, but in the new year that is being cut back to just half an hour. Corrections Commissioner for Custodial Services, Leigh Marsh spoke to Lisa Owen.