We need a more stringent regime of sentencing and accountability for the people who are recruiting, and we need to build capacity for those younger kids who are being recruited because of their socio-economic condition, because of poverty, because of all these underlying issues.
There has to be a two-pronged approach. Prong one is better accountability in the system and more stringent sentencing for those people who are taking advantage of young, vulnerable people. Prong two is that we have to look at how we support those young, vulnerable people so that we can get them out of that system, so that we don't turn them into chronic violent offenders for the next however many years.
