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NT corrections crisis – growing numbers of Aboriginal youth behind bars

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$600 dollars a day or $300.000 per year. That is the cost of housing a juvenile in Northern Territory prisons. The costs and catastrophic statistics facing Indigenous youth have led to the gap in incarceration widening for 3 years in a row... with many saying NT Youth Corrections is beyond a crisis. NITV News Video Journalist Danny Teece-Johnson reports.
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