Election 2017 - Party Policies - Justice, Law and Order - Sentencing
27th May 17, 9:22am
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Sentencing
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- Reward prisoners who complete literacy programs and driver licensing tests with reduced sentences. Do the same for prisoners who volunteer to teach in these programs.
- Three strikes law for burglars.
- Read more here.
- Increase the range of options available to judges in criminal court cases.
- Ensure sentencing recognises and addresses matters such as poor life skills or illiteracy and the necessity for diagnosis and treatment of mental and physical health issues and disabilities.
- Read more here.
- Set a target of reducing the prison population by 30% over fifteen years, including a specific target to reduce Māori over-representation in the prison system.
- Ensure that alternatives to prison are available and utilised at both the sentencing and remand stage.
- This includes: investing in alternatives that will protect the public and meet rehabilitative needs; ensuring that defendants on remand have access to social housing where they meet eligibility criteria; and amending legislation to ensure judges have discretion to utilise alternatives to prison for low level offenders.
- Improve consistency in sentencing, including by considering reconstituting the Sentencing Council.
- Repeal the “Three Strikes” legislation.
- Read more here.
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- Ensure an accused can be re-tried where any acquittal, or a change to a lesser offence, was as a result of intimidation, perjury, or bribery.
- Remove concurrent sentences for those guilty of rape and for those who commit offences while on parole, on bail, or whilst in custody.
- Review the adequacy of maximum sentences for serious criminal offences; and increase the use of mandatory minimum sentences for violent offenders.
- Investigate the implementation of degrees of murder sentencing regime.
- Require that upon conviction of a serious crime, non-citizens will be deported to their country of origin.
- Read more here.
- Repeal Three Strikes Law.
- Read more here.
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