NZ First leader Winston Peters. Photo: RNZNew Zealand First is promising to fund more prisoner rehabilitation programmes if re-elected. Leader Winston Peters said his party had long supported training programmes to build and improve the skills of prisoners to help them rejoin society. ''If elected, we pledge to work with Corrections, and fund more of these and similar programmes across the country," Peters said. Training programmes decreased reoffending rates and kept people from returning to prison upon their release, he said.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 08, 2020 03:22 UTC