Fact Check: Amnesty International claim on 'shocking' Indigenous child incarceration rates checks out

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Fact Check: Amnesty International claim on 'shocking' Indigenous child incarceration rates checks out

17 Jun 2015

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Fact Check: Amnesty International claim on 'shocking' Indigenous child incarceration rates checks out

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Amnesty International secretary general Salil Shetty claims the rate at which Western Australia jails Indigenous children is higher than the rate black children in the US are incarcerated.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation 2015

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26 May 2020

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