NZ ACT Party Defends Plan to Put Ankle Bracelets on Offenders as Young as 11

NZ ACT Party Defends Plan to Put Ankle Bracelets on Offenders as Young as 11
A policeman guards the scene outside a pharmacy in the suburb of Mount Albert in Auckland, New Zealand, on Aug. 24, 2010. Phil Walter/Getty Images
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New Zealand’s ACT Party has stood by its plan to use tracking ankle bracelets on serious youth offenders as young as 11 years old in response to escalating youth crime.

In response to the Ardern government’s “Better Pathways” package announcement on Sept 6., ACT Leader David Seymour said the plan would fail because it lacked the inclusion of “a single consequence for youth offenders.”