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| Probe into Northern Territory indigenous jail rates
A national brains trust is needed to tackle the disproportionate number of Aboriginal people behind bars, a Northern Territory judge says.
Judge Dean Mildren told a public lecture at the University of Adelaide that the high rate of indigenous people in jails across the country was a "horrible statistic".
According to 2005-06 ABS data, 551 out of 100,000 people were in jail in the Northern Territory.
Of those, 80 per cent were Aboriginal, and most were unemployed men aged 20 to 40 years old, Judge Mildren said.
Judge Mildren, who has been a justice of the Northern Territory Supreme Court since 1991, said the reasons behind the high imprisonment rates needed to be addressed.
He said despite progress in the past 20 years, Aboriginal people were imprisoned at a rate out of step with the non-indigenous population.
Petrol sniffing and, increasingly, cannabis were leading to mass social problems in Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, he said.
Poverty, unemployment, overcrowded housing and poor retention in educational institutions were other factors.
"It is time for a national approach," Judge Mildren said.
"The more we can share our experiences, the more likely we can find some helpful suggestions."
Judge Mildren said the brains trust should be similar to the Council of Australian Governments meetings and consist of a number of politicians and individuals who would meet to discuss programs.
He said reforms to the criminal justice system should be one part of a bigger process to improve incarceration rates of indigenous people.
"It is not good to say to an 18 year-old offender that `I am sending you to an alcohol rehabilitation program' if he is going to return to friends and family members who are drunks," he said.
Judge Mildren spoke as part of the Distinguished Visiting Judge Program run by the University of Adelaide Law School.
Posted by AU Network
on March 16 2007 20:11:26
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