http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3016479a10,00.html:
"New figures showing more than a quarter of all criminals serving time at home are sexual or violent offenders has sparked calls for a rethink of home detention.
Figures released under the Official Information Act show 28.7 per cent of criminals on home detention were sentenced for crimes of a violent or sexual nature.
The Government is reviewing home detention after a succession of media reports highlighting abuse of the system. Several Opposition MPs have called for home detention to be scrapped, citing cases of offenders being given home detention inappropriately.
The emphasis of the review is on so-called backend home detention, which allows even violent criminals to apply to spend the last three months of a jail term at home, sometimes with their victims. "
