Australian Bar Association agenda to reduce Indigenous incarceration rates

08/04/2016

The president of the Australian Bar Association (ABA), Patrick O’Sullivan QC, is calling for national co-operation to tackle the alarming and disproportionate rates of Indigenous incarceration. The ABA is proposing mandatory sentencing laws, that have the biggest impact with minimum effect on Indigenous people, be amended or removed, and funds saved from housing prisoners redirected into programs that rehabilitate and reduce recidivism. View the ABA media release here.