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Cut Indigenous jail rates by scrapping mandatory sentences: Bar Association

Tổng trưởng Tư pháp George Brandis

Tổng trưởng Tư pháp George Brandis Source: AAP

The Australian Bar Association (ABA) says the number of Indigenous Australians behind bars is a national disgrace.


It's calling on state and territory governments to scrap mandatory prison sentences for minor offences -- a growing cause of incarceration for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.


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