Bootcamps
'Military-style academy' for young offenders to be running by mid-year
It's full steam ahead with the government's plan to send young offenders to boot camps, despite youth advocates' assurances it won't work. Children's minister Karen Chhour has announced a pilot of the… Audio
National ignoring evidence against boot camps - lawyer for survivors of state care abuse
National's ignoring the weight of evidence against enforced military-style camps for young offenders.
That's according to a lawyer representing survivors of some of the country's worst cases of abuse… Audio
Coss Marte and his prison-style bootcamp employing ex-inmates
Coss Marte is the founder and chief executive of Conbody. It's a prison-style fitness bootcamp in New York City that hires former inmates as trainers. Coss served a seven-year sentence in New York's… Audio
National's boot camp plan - keeping kids from prison or ambulance at bottom of cliff?
Critics say a National Party plan to send hardened youth criminals to an army bootcamp is aimed at winning votes but will never work. Canterbury University criminologist Jarrod Gilbert and the Morgan… Audio
Youth justice group slams govt's boot camp plan
Youth justice lobby group Just Speak says the government's proposed year-long military boot camp plan for serious young offenders tells RNZ's Demelza Leslie the Waiouru Army camp will be just another… Audio