NEW ZEALAND’S PRISON GUARDS GET SLUSHY MACHINES

New Zealand’s Department of Corrections is being criticized for spending more than $700,000 on slushy machines for the guards. 193 of the machines were installed at 16 locations across the country after a record-breaking heatwave last summer, at a reported cost of NZ$1,095,308 ($730,000). The purpose was to reduce staff discomfort, because discomfort could lead to tension which, in turn, could lead to violence toward inmates. The purchase has been called “an extraordinary waste of taxpayers’ money”.
* DELICIOUSLY extraordinary!
* You can’t argue with that kind of science.
* They should have paid for them out of a slush fund.
* When the public heard how much money was involved, the reaction across New Zealand was a Big Gulp.
* Spoon straws have now become the new currency among New Zealand’s prisoners.
* As if the slushy machines weren’t bad enough, each prison also got a big jar of beef jerky sticks.
* Orange Is The New Black … Slushy Machine Is The New Water Fountain.