Australia's Indigenous Deaths in Custody: A National Disgrace
Update: 2025-12-11
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Australias Indigenous population faces a crisis: the highest number of deaths in custody in forty-six years. A new report shows that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders accounted for thirty-three out of one hundred and thirteen deaths in prison or police custody, nearly double the average since nineteen eighty-nine and nineteen ninety. New South Wales recorded the highest rates with twelve deaths. The New South Wales government acknowledges the issue, attributing the increase to rising remand rates. However, Indigenous organizations and advocates blame tough crime laws, which have led to a lowered minimum age of criminal responsibility and harsher penalties for young offenders. The alarming statistics come thirty-four years after the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, which made three hundred and thirty-nine recommendations, many of which remain unfulfilled.
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