Labour's Corrections Spokesperson is unfazed by Government's move to drop its prison population reduction target.
The party has scrapped its 2017 promise to bring numbers down by 30% within 15 years.
Kelvin Davis told Mike Hosking that they were facing a prison capacity crisis in 2017, but that's changed.
He says re-sentencing rates after 12 months have dropped 11% since 2017, showing there's been a number of success stories.
Davis is fairly relaxed about the Government's position on prison numbers.
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