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EPISODE · Aug 8, 2023 · 10 MIN

Why do we keep locking up Indigenous children?

from Quick Smart · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

On any night, around half of people aged 10 -17 in detention facilities across the country are Aboriginal or Torres Strait islander, but Indigenous people only make up 3% of the population. So why are so many Indigenous kids ending up behind bars? And what the programs that are trying to stop that from happening? And are they actually working?

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