Australia's imprisonment rate highest since 1899 despite falling crime rates

Person handcuffed to prison bars

...And he disappeared Source: AAP

Australia's prison population is still growing despite declining crime rates. A new report reveals incarceration in Australian jails is up by 130 per cent from 1985 - and the number of Indigenous Australians in prison has more than doubled.



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