Advocates condemn ‘aggressive tough-on-crime approach’ to sentencing of Aboriginal children
The rate of imprisonment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people in the Northern Territory is 43 times the rate for non-Indigenous children and 17 times the rate nationally, according to new analysis released by the Sentencing Advisory Council of Victoria.“We have heard reports of Aboriginal children in out-of-home care as young as 12 years old being issued with fines for breaching social distancing orders,” Change the Record co-chair Cheryl Axleby said.
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