The Opportunities Party has unveiled a criminal justice policy focused on reducing prison populations and addressing the root causes of offending, with leader Gareth Morgan arguing that current approaches are both costly and ineffective. What is more, leader Gareth Morgan said today in launching the party’s criminal justice policy, the economic cost of incarcerating thousands of offenders is only going to grow as long as political parties try to outbid each other on who can offer the most $273 per night prison beds. “The situation we are in now isn’t a result of having the world’s worst offenders,” Dr Morgan says, “It has come about because New Zealand has some of the world’s worst and most outdated criminal justice policies.