Acting Director of Public Prosecutions in the Northern Territory says the state is seeing staggering rates of incarceration over the last year, many domestic violence calls.
With the overall prisoner population increasing by 10 per cent, with prisoners on remand increasing by 30 percent.
Criminal Lawyers Association NT president Chrissy McConnell says that more funding to circumvent staff turnover and trial preparation wait times is the only realistic way to alleviate the system.