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Commentary
Data gaps mean Indigenous incarceration rates may be even worse than we thought
Publisher
Aboriginal Australians
Indigenous peoples
Prison sentences
Indigenous incarceration
Australia
Description
Cape York Institute senior policy adviser, Shireen Morris, told the ABC’s ‘Q&A’ program recently that the incarceration rate of Indigenous people has doubled since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody twenty-five years ago.
That statement is true, but gaps in the data suggest the problem may be even worse than the official statistics suggests.
Publication Details
Copyright:
The Conversation Media Group 2016
Post date:
28 Jul 2016
