Review of ACT’s incarceration rate for indigenous people
The ACT government has announced an independent review into the over-representation of First Nations people in the justice system.
The ACT government has announced an independent review into the over-representation of First Nations people in the justice system.
Indigenous leader JULIE TONGS says the death of a young Aboriginal man in a prison far away in NSW, by his own hand, alone and sad has caused her 'unutterable distress' because it could have been prevented.
Young Canberra Aboriginal man TJ Dennis took his own life in a NSW prison at the weekend.
"The facts in this case were never going to sustain the legal argument that the prison authorities had acted in breach of the requirements. Not even luck could save the day," writes legal columnist HUGH SELBY.