A prisoner has been released from Rimutaka prison following a 25-day hunger strike.
Francis Shaw was on remand for charges relating to cannabis cultivation and was unexpectedly released.
Shaw has had a long running battle with the state and has spent the past four decades in and out of jail with a criminal record pages long.
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