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| Plan to double-bunk wins support |
| By The National Business Review |
| Published: 12/01/2008 |
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NEW ZEALAND - A tougher sentencing group has endorsed a government plan to use "double-bunking" to cope with increased prison numbers. National campaigned on several tougher sentencing policies including stricter bail laws, an end to parole for repeat violent offenders, life in prison for the worst murderers and longer sentences for those who commit crimes against children. It has said it will build a new prison to cope with the extra inmates, but planning and construction is likely to take several years. Corrections Minister Judith Collins said in the interim National would house the extra inmates in existing prisons. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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