%T Bridges and barriers - addressing Indigenous incarceration and health: revised edition




%I National Indigenous Drug and Alcohol Committee
%D 2013

%K Public health, %K Government relations with First Peoples, %K First Peoples health, %K Drugs and alcohol



%U https://apo.org.au/node/33094

%X Indigenous Australians make up just over one-quarter (26 per cent) of Australia’s prison population (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2011), despite the fact that Indigenous Australians comprise around 2.5 per cent of Australia’s entire adult population (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2011c). Over the past 20 years, Indigenous Australians have continued to fill our country’s prisons at alarmingly disproportionate rates. The issues experienced by Indigenous offenders are significant and complex.
%9 Report