15K views · 113 reactions | With three prisons within four kilometres, residents living in Manurewa, South Auckland, say their area is the “prison capital of New Zealand”. They’re fighting plans for another prison in the area, saying they already deal with many of the country’s offenders – and enough is enough. | 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

5.5K views · 54 reactions | Southland workers at the endangered Tiwai...