The Custody Notification Service (CNS) provides independent, culturally-appropriate, telephone-based health, wellbeing and legal support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people entering police custody. A mixed-methods, theory-based evaluation assessed the service's design, implementation, effectiveness, resource efficiency and community benefits, making recommendations to strengthen the implementation and delivery of the CNS.

Significant reform is necessary of the laws protecting the community from reoffending risks posed by some people convicted of serious crimes. This paper presents proposals for the reform of the law governing preventive detention, extended supervision orders and public protection orders.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are over-represented in Australia’s prisons. First Nations people in contact with the criminal justice system often have complex health and wellbeing needs, and may require access to culturally-safe health care services. This report provides an overview of related statistics from data taken from the 2022 National Prisoner Health Data...

The authors of this report argue that measures to reduce illicit drug and alcohol use, improve school retention and improve economic outcomes for Indigenous Australians are essential if Australia is to achieve any long-term reduction in the scale of Indigenous over-representation in prison.

This document presents a review of the Australian literature on missing, murdered and incarcerated Indigenous women in Australia. The review was conducted by Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (ANROWS) to support seven Indigenous-led communiques into missing, murdered and incarcerated Indigenous women.