Labor unveils plan to reduce Indigenous incarceration rates

19/11/2015

The Australian Labor Party today announced its policy on using justice reinvestment to reduce the unacceptably high levels of Indigenous incarceration. An Indigenous adult is 15 times more likely to be imprisoned than a non-Indigenous adult and an Indigenous child is 24 times more likely to be in detention. View "Closing the Gap Justice Targets for Safer, Stronger Communities". The Australian Bar Association and the Law Council of Australia earlier this year formed the "National Justice Coalition" in a campaign called "Change the Record", which is designed to end the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the criminal justice system.