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Australia is in the grips of a prison boom with more people behind bars than ever before. According to recent ABS data, Australia’s jail populations soared to 44,400 people last year – quadrupling since the 1980s. The NT is now the first Australian jurisdiction to see more than 1 percent of its adult population in …
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Last week, a report into government services found more than $1 billion is spent keeping children in youth detention a year. It’s the highest number ever spent on youth detention annually, and it goes hand in hand with expansions in the adult prison system too – including the building of 37 new prisons since 2000. …
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In 2022, more than half of the prison population were told that they had a mental health condition at some point in their lives, with female prisoners more likely to have a history of mental health conditions. Mental health professionals said that its crucial that correctional services provide inmates with adequate mental health care for …
Human rights in Australia are unfair for First Nations people in Australia’s prison system, according to an Indigenous rights advocate. Indigenous Australians are incarcerated at disproportionate rates compared with non-Indigenous Australians. …And Noongar woman from Western Australia, Marianne Headland Mackay, says the way First Nations people are treated is inhumane and the government needs to …