Jail rates for Indigenous women soar as legal funding cuts loom
Jail rates for Indigenous women soar as legal funding cuts loom
- Incarceration rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women have soared 18% in the past year as the government moves to effectively cut funding to Indigenous legal and family violence prevention services. The Human Rights Law Centre’s senior lawyer, Ruth Barson, criticised Tony Abbott, who is spending a week in Arnhem Land, for not doing enough to prevent Indigenous women being jailed.
- Incarceration rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women have soared 18% in the past year as the government moves to effectively cut funding to Indigenous legal and family violence prevention services. The Human Rights Law Centre’s senior lawyer, Ruth Barson, criticised Tony Abbott, who is spending a week in Arnhem Land, for not doing enough to prevent Indigenous women being jailed.