If prisons don’t boost community safety, why is Australia building more?

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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