380K views · 6.7K reactions | #WATCH: Auckland Women's Prison faces a major overhaul of the way it handles inmates after revelations by RNZ about the degrading and inhumane treatment of Mihi Bassett and other women at the prison. | Checkpoint | Facebook

42K views · 720 reactions | "He has shattered our dreams" - just one of the harrowing victim impact statements read out today as New Zealand's first convicted slave master was sentenced to 11 years in prison. Sixty-six-year-old Samoan chief Joseph Auga Matamata was found guilty in March - of 10 charges of human trafficking and 13 charges of dealing in slaves. Checkpoint video journalist Logan Church was at the High Court in Napier, and filed this report. | Checkpoint | Facebook

18K views · 243 reactions | Mark Cowan says he’d be either dead or in prison if it wasn’t for a court programme that helped him get clean instead of going to jail. But criminals like him are having to wait months before they get into the programme due to a “clogged up” system in desperate need of more funding. | Checkpoint | Facebook