Legal advocates are calling for a national response to the disproportionate imprisonment of Indigenous people.
30 years on from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the imprisonment rate of Indigenous people is more than 20 times the imprisonment rate of the adult population.
Law Council of Australia President Jacoba Brasch says the solutions First Nations peoples have consistently provided must be implemented and prioritised.
Dr Brasch said, “Yet in December 2020, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander imprisonment rate was 2,333 persons per 100,000 adult Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, compared to the imprisonment rate of 208 persons per 100,000 adult population generally.”