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Indigenous Australians more likely to be jailed than African Americans
Indigenous Australians are now more likely to be jailed than African Americans, a new analysis of official data shows.
According to the data, a quarter of Indigenous men born in the 1970s have now served time in prison.
- Dana McCauley
- WAtoday
Labor frontbencher Andrew Leigh, who crunched the numbers from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, said in a research paper to be published on Monday that Australia’s incarceration rate had spiked by 130 per cent since 1985, despite a fall in crime rates.
With 0.22 per cent of Australian adults (a total of 43,000 people) currently imprisoned, Dr Leigh said the…