'This is not justice': the law keeping more people locked up after their sentence

If you are ever jailed for a crime, you would hope to do your time in jail and be released at the end of it.

For a small number of people who are deemed to pose an exceptional risk to society, such as sexual offenders and terrorists, that hasn’t always been the case – and in some jurisdictions they can be kept in jail or given harsh restrictions long after they leave.

But now those exceptions are expanding — other offences are increasingly subject to what is called ‘preventative detention’.

Today, journalist Kieran Pender on the question of who gets to walk free at the end of their sentence.

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Guest: Journalist, Kieran Pender.

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