The Government's throwing $1.9 billion at Corrections with a pledge to restore law and order.
It will add more than 800 extra beds at Waikeria Prison and recruit 685 more frontline Corrections staff.
Criminal defence lawyer John Munro says more beds will result in more people in prison.
He told Mike Hosking that we need to be careful we don't end up following in the footsteps of the United States.
Munro says we still need to get the balance of rehabilitation and recidivism right, so the community is kept safe but people leaving prison don't go back to crime.
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