Ex-prisoner and hunger striker Tuta Ngarimu is supported by two Upper Hutt Mongrel Mob members on the steps of Parliament Buildings in December 1987, as he protests against conditions for prisoners in Pāremoremo Prison. He had just spent 63 days without food. Ngarimu and his supporters were eventually arrested for trespass, but they achieved media attention for their complaints about intimidation, discrimination and substandard conditions at Pāremoremo. Ngarimu, released from the prison a few weeks earlier, was supporting the hunger strike of prisoner Irwin Babbington, who wanted prison authorities to establish a grievance committee of Māori kaumātua who would have round-the-clock access to inmates.