First Nations women account for more than 40 per cent of the incarcerated women population, with over 80 per cent of those being mothers.
First Nations women have banded together to demand action from the government on the treatment of Indigenous women in prisons. On Wednesday, former prisoners and community groups shared stories at a roundtable held in the Senate committee room of Parliament House in Canberra. Independent community organisation Sisters Inside told the Truth Telling Yarns: Women in Prison roundtable on Wednesday that Indigenous women were deprived of human rights in prison.
First Nations women account for more than 40 per cent of the incarcerated women population, with over 80 per cent of them being mothers. The incarceration of Indigenous women was described by those in attendance as a "crisis", and likened to the Stolen Generations with many jailed mothers denied custody of their children. One formerly detained woman told the roundtable that on the day she was released, her baby was taken away and put into child protection.
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