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Aboriginal dancers in Australia lead a protest march at a rally to mark the twentieth anniversary
of the handing down of the report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
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Kirstie Parker
Koori Mail
During the past decade, Aboriginal imprisonment rates across Australia have skyrocketed by more than 50 percent – to a point where Aboriginal Australian adults are 13 times more likely to end up in jail than the rest of the population.
And Aboriginal Australians now account for about a quarter of the nation’s overall adult prison population, despite making up less than three percent of the broader population.
The situation is so dire that advocates have pleaded for the reduction of Indigenous incarceration to be added to official close-the-gap targets.
