In Inside Story (30.7.15) Robert Milliken reports on a new program in Bourke, New South Wales, in which a loose consortium including the police, the Bourke Shire Council, business figures and Indigenous leaders have embarked on a project to apply a ‘community model’ of justice reinvestment to try to bring the imprisonment rate down.
- Unlocking Indigenous incarceration »
- Breakthrough at Bourke »
- As Indigenous incarceration rates keep rising, justice reinvestment offers a solution »
- The role of ‘re-storying’ in addressing over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples »
- ‘Too much money is spent on jails and policing’: what Aboriginal communities told us about funding justice reinvestment to keep people out of prison
- ‘Cheap police’: Four Corners shows the dangers of private policing in the NT and why First Nations people are more at risk
- ‘Unreasonable, unjust, oppressive’: how a police program targeted Indigenous kids