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Youth justice system rules driving up Indigenous incarceration rate, commissioner says - Youth justice system rules driving up Indigenous incarceration rate, ... up to fail and worsening the Indigenous incarceration rate, Western Australia's  ...

Indigenous incarceration: push to end jailing for fines and introduce automatic parole -  Indigenous incarceration: push to end jailing for fines and introduce ... in an effort to reduce Indigenous incarceration rates, the Australian Law Reform ...

Australia look to Māori model to reduce indigenous incarceration - Australia look to Māori model to reduce indigenous incarceration ... "It is the first time as a group we've got together across to New Zealand , but your ...

We must look to our humanity to solve the crisis of Indigenous incarceration  - There is no law and order solution to the high rates of Indigenous incarceration in Australia . The solution lies in an examination of our common ...

Record indigenous incarceration rates could be avoided with early clinical assessment ... - Leading experts in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) believe Australia's record rates of Indigenous incarceration could be dramatically reduced ...

Australia look to Māori model to reduce indigenous incarceration - Reducing indigenous incarceration rates in Australia has seen a working group from various Corrections units in Australia take note on how New ...

New SBS documentary Prison Songs confronts issue of indigenous incarceration  - When it comes the vexed topic of incarceration rates for indigenous Australians , the statistics are blunt and often overwhelming. In the new SBS ...

Australia's indigenous incarceration crisis  - The rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander incarceration is now 18 times higher than that of non- indigenous Australians . Last month, the Law ...

Bid to reduce indigenous incarceration now in doubt - On June 30 last year — when the Australian Bureau of Statistics took its annual snapshot of the prison population — there were 11,307 indigenous inmates nationwide, 3197 of them in NSW. The highest rate of indigenous imprisonment was in the Northern Territory, at 84 per cent or 1349, and the lowest ... Android Chrome Windows Mobile friendly AppsCenter

Rising Indigenous incarceration; less government funding  - A report shows a 75% increase in the number of Indigenous Australians in prison. At the same time, the federal budget has cut half a billion dollars from Indigenous programs.

Government policy and Indigenous incarceration rates  - The doubling of the prison population in less than two decades, the overcrowded prisons, the high reoffending lives, the outrageous incarceration rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, the horrific death toll in the first year post-release.

As Indigenous incarceration rates keep rising, justice reinvestment offers a solution -  The over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians is one of our nation's most significant human ...

As Indigenous incarceration rates keep rising, justice reinvestment offers a solution - The over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians is one of our nation's most significant human rights concerns. Data released ...

Australia needs a civil rights movement to end mass Indigenous incarceration - THE MASS INCARCERATION of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders should be a civil rights issue, one of the pressing issues of our generation.

Critics of indigenous incarceration 'overlook family violence'  -  Indigenous affairs academic Marcia Langton said there were some parts of Australia where “rates of violence are the critical factor in disabling ...

Greens urge Government to address 'shameful' Indigenous incarceration issue - The Greens are urging the Government to establish targets for driving down the number of Indigenous Australians in jail.

Legal bodies welcome Indigenous incarceration inquiry - Mr Brandis noted that when the report was published in 1991 Indigenous Australians represented 14 per cent of Australia's prison population.

Government announces inquiry into Indigenous incarceration - The Federal Government has announced an inquiry into the deepening over-representation of Indigenous Australians in the ...

NT and WA to ignore UN's calls to review mandatory sentencing as Indigenous incarceration rate ... - The UN's committee against torture was concerned at reports mandatory sentencing disproportionately affected Indigenous Australians who make up ...

A shocking record on Indigenous incarceration  - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are 13 times more likely to be imprisoned than non-Indigenous people. Arrente man Des Rogers’s story is an all-too-common one. Imprisoned at the age of fourteen, Des was “thrown back into a world of hopelessness” and reoffended. He found himself locked up for four years, 1500km from his family and community.