17 Nov 2022

National dusts off boot camps policy for youth offenders

From Checkpoint, 6:07 pm on 17 November 2022

The National Party wants to bring back boot camps for teen offenders, promising a crackdown on what it says is a youth crime wave.

National's leader Christopher Luxon announced the plan in Hamilton this morning, including ankle-bracelets for repeat rule-breakers as young as 10.

Here's our deputy political editor Craig McCulloch.

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