“Truth in sentencing” – sentences served in full – to be introduced
Bring back private prisons with contractual provisions that include zero tolerance for drugs, prisoner education and discipline as priorities
Prisoners must participate in educational opportunities available, and if they don’t, they must work
State to pay reparations awarded to the victims and recover from the offender through wages or welfare cheques
Strengthen Proceeds of Crime legislation to enhance asset seizure for victim reparation

A greater focus on mediation, restorative justice, solutions based approaches, and community based justice
A holistic approach to dealing with crime aimed at cutting offending and reducing our dependence on imprisonment
Improved access to and participation within the justice system through improved information services and court environments
Our justice system should be part of the way we create a just and peaceful society

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Extend the Police’s crime-fighting toolkit
Remove the legitimacy, power, and status of criminal gangs
Give more support to victims of crime
Give the youth justice system a set of tools for getting young people out of the crime cycle
Under National, a criminal who is convicted of murder will not be eligible for release if they have been previously convicted of a violent offence and sentenced to prison for five years or more. For these murderers, a life sentence will mean life in prison

Ensure that all issues of moral and social import cannot be changed except by way of referendum
Immediately review the rules for home detention to restrict eligibility and strengthen supervision
Provide greater statutory guidance to the judiciary on what sentences offenders should receive for various crimes
Remove concurrent sentences for those guilty of serious crime
Deter recidivist offending by introducing the principle of 'three strikes and you're out'

Reduce the length of the sentence but extend the non-parole period from one-third of the sentence to two-thirds
Ensure that prison inmates are provided with co-ordinated re-integration services upon release
Support the development of a multi-party accord on crime with the aim of shifting political debate to issues of fact and the reasons for New Zealand's high rate of recidivism
Recover reparation to victims by automatically deducting at least 10% of an offender's earnings