‘Tough on crime’ policies are causing Indigenous people to die in custody
- Written by Thalia Anthony, Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
When a First Nations person dies in custody, it sends shockwaves through families and communities. The trauma of losing a loved one adds to a sense of despair that First Nations lives are expendable, that no one is held to account, and that nothing changes.
In 1991, the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody investigated the crisis that...
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