The lie of home detention

[Lilith7]

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.

Well I have huge respect for ACT when Seymour acknowledged that they got it wrong with their "soft" approach when supporting current legislation going through.
The fact is that it's worse right now with youth offending and Michael Hill stores shouldn't be experiencing weekly robberies.

Seymour is an inexperienced politician who knows the value of attacking the usual subjects in order to gain votes; like many other MP's he simply doesn't care who is damaged in the process.