3.3 In focus: the Management and Separates Unit at Auckland Region Women’s Correctional Facility (ARWCF) ARWCF houses the only designated Management Unit for women in Corrections’ custody. As with Management Units in men’s prisons, the unit was especially designed for the longer-term segregation of women from the rest of the prison population and from each other, with one wing a dedicated Management Unit, and one wing a dedicated Separates Unit. Cells in the Separates Unit have their own small yard, meaning that the vast majority of daily activities can be provided to women without the need for them to leave their cells. The regime of long-term solitary confinement makes the units of particular interest to this review, and merits special attention. “... this review shares the sense of outrage at revelations of practices and the humiliations, big and small, that women in the segregated parts of ARWCF prison had, and continue to have, to endure.” Much has been written about ARWCF in recent times, including detailed coverage of a court proceeding involving conditions at the prison’s Management and Separates Units. Reviewing some of the specifics of conditions and practices, including the women’s segregation, cell extractions, lack of mental health care, invasion of privacy and degrading rituals, the Court concluded that:35 “It is difficult to see all of these examples of the ill treatment of prisoners as anything other than a concerted effort to break their spirit, and defeat their resistance”. Having assessed some of the same documents and data examined by the Court and reported in the media, this review shares the sense of outrage at revelations of practices and the humiliations, big and small, that women in the segregated parts of ARWCF prison had, and continue to have, to endure. But whilst the particulars of the experiences of the two women at the centre of the proceeding may be especially harrowing, they chime more widely with the overall picture of practices in the segregated units of the prison observed by this review. 35 R v Bassett Manukau CRI-2019-092-012895, 4 February 2021 at [95]. 27