With six weeks to go before the general election, the National party says if re-elected it will tackle the country’s most serious young offenders by sending them to train alongside soldiers at a bootcamp run by the army. Any children who failed to stick out the year’s camp would serve a “commensurate adult sentence of imprisonment instead”, Adams said. “A punitive plan to appeal to our punitive culture,” wrote novelist Elizabeth Knox on social media. Because the evidence does just not point to that.”“In fact, the evidence shows that it creates more problems and recidivism actually increases. Now we don’t exactly know why that occurs - the shorthand is that we create faster, fitter criminals - but in truth we don’t know.

Source: The Guardian August 14, 2017 04:41 UTC