Chester Borrows: Government Justice Advisor says Three Strikes Law wasn't a good one
Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Newstalk ZB
November 11, 20213m 31s
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Show Notes
A former National MP says the Three Strikes Law made the country no safer.
The Government's scrapping the law which was created by Act in the National-led coalition government 11 years ago.
It meant people convicted of a third serious violent, sex or drug offence would automatically get the maximum sentence without parole.
Former National MP and Government justice advisor Chester Borrows says it meant there was no incentive for people to do rehabilitation programmes.
He told Kate Hawkesby that rehabilitation programmes do work but without an incentive to do them nobody is better off.
“I don’t think it was a good law.”
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The Government's scrapping the law which was created by Act in the National-led coalition government 11 years ago.
It meant people convicted of a third serious violent, sex or drug offence would automatically get the maximum sentence without parole.
Former National MP and Government justice advisor Chester Borrows says it meant there was no incentive for people to do rehabilitation programmes.
He told Kate Hawkesby that rehabilitation programmes do work but without an incentive to do them nobody is better off.
“I don’t think it was a good law.”
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