Indigenous groups are calling for governments to finally act on the crisis of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander imprisonment. Friday marks 25 years since the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody tabled its 339 recommendations – among them that imprisonment should be used as a last resort. Since then, the number of Indigenous prisoners behind bars has doubled and their risk of being put there is 13 times higher than non-Indigenous Australians.

Source: ‘A national crisis’: Indigenous incarceration rates worse 25 years on | SBS News