Labour is accusing the Government of pushing forward with its boot camp pilot even in the face of obvious failure.

This comes as two participants who fled the programmewere arrested by police officers responding to a carjacking in Hamilton yesterday.

CEO of the Billy Youth Foundation David Graham says the longer the young men are in the bootcamps, the less likely they are to transition back into the community, and asks what the function of the camps is.

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