Indigenous Incarceration

July 10, 2009 at 1:52 pm | In Life Observations | Leave a Comment

Some very alarming statistics were released this week. In NSW, Indigenous youths are 26 times more likely to be in juvenile detention than their non-Indigenous peers. Nationally it is even worse at 28 times.

I am a firm believer that we need better programs to reduce these rates. Clearly the system is failing.

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