Indigenous

At-a-glance: Indigenous incarceration in Australia

The 1991 royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody tabled 339 recommendations - among them that imprisonment should be used as a last resort. Since then, the number of Indigenous prisoners behind bars has doubled and their risk of being put there is 13 times higher than non-Indigenous Australians.

Protesters angry over Aboriginal deaths in custody march through Perth's CBD towards Parliament House on October 23, 2014.

Protesters angry over Aboriginal deaths in custody march through Perth's CBD towards Parliament House on October 23, 2014. Source: AAP

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Published 15 April 2016 7:51am
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