The lie of home detention

[Lilith7]

Whereas it appears that the right are perfectly happy to continue creating lifelong criminals using their 'get tough' nonsense - which they know doesn't work, but merrily continue to use in order to gain votes from the uninformed.

Heaven forfend any politicians here should take a look at what works in other countries & try it here, (adapt it if needed) since it would mean they couldn't use that ever so handy 'tough on crime' whenever there's an election coming up.

The fact is that if this shooter was in prison where he belonged, none of this would have happened.
And yes luxon wants boot camps for youth offenders.
He says he has looked into the research from other countries overseas that have done it and the evidence is extremely convincing. He is being firm on his position.

Luxon can't possibly be unaware of the fact that the idiotic 'boot camps' have been a miserable failure & are more likely to contribute to people continuing on with committing crimes; brutality doesn't usually work & that is what they've largely been in the past.

So it looks rather as though National/ ACT are happy to use people who will have no choice to make the pretence that they're doing something about crime, while knowing full well it isn't effective & may well do more harm than good.