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

New Zealand’s ACT Party has stood by its plan to use tracking ankle bracelets on 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.”
“Today, we’re proposing ankle bracelets for youth offenders who carry out serious offences,” Seymour said on Sept. 6.
“Ram raids are being carried out by the same, hardened group of young people who face no consequences. They’re too young for prison, they’re known to escape from youth justice facilities, or are sent home to their families where they have a lack of guidance and discipline.”…