Mentally-impaired men imprisoned without conviction

WGAR News: Sisters on the Inside, Babies on the Outside: The Wire [Featuring Debbie Kilroy, Dr Jennifer James & Kat Armstrong]

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 09/12/2014 - 4:15pm

Newsletter date: 12 December 2014

Geography: 
Australia
Northern Territory
Queensland
Keywords: 
aboriginal
The Wire
Debbie Kilroy
Sisters Inside
Dr Jennifer James
Kat Armstrong
Women In Prison Advocacy Network
Greens Senator Rachel Siewert
Rachel Siewert
incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Indigenous incarceration rates continue to rise
Justice Reinvestment
Aboriginal imprisonment
Aboriginal deaths in custody
NIRS
Warren Barnsley
detention of four Aboriginal men with cognitive impairment
Mentally-impaired men imprisoned without conviction
Bridie Jabour
The Guardian
mandatory sentencing
jailed Indigenous men with disabilities