The rate of Indigenous people aged 10-17 in youth justice supervision has been found by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare to be 15 times higher compared to 2012-13.
AIHW spokesperson Anna Ritson says while there has been a drop in the rate of Indigenous young people under supervision in recent years, the decline for non-Indigenous young people was proportionally greater, effectively increasing Indigenous overrepresentation in the youth justice system.
Aboriginal Adviser Rodney Dillon says it doesn’t matter whether the kids are Aboriginal or non-Aboriginal, they should never be in this system. Once they get into this system it's like a quicksand of crime - they never get out of it.