Documents show the cost of mentoring the serious young offenders in the goverment's military style academies could be $100,000 for each teenager. The Oranga Tamariki- run pilot will involve ten boys aged 15 to 18 and starts at the end of this month but there has been little detail about what exactly the boot camps will look like, and how the teenagers will move back into the community. Political reporter Lilian Hanly spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.
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