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Breaking the cycle

2 March 2017

  • prison van patrolling outside a razor wire

    'It really feels like we’re punished too’: how the prison system locks out visitors

    Megan Williams
    Visitors play a crucial role in prisoner rehabilitation but Australian jails are often difficult to get to, have restrictive visiting criteria and aren’t set up for those with mobility issues or children

28 February 2017

  • indigenous man with hands clasped in street

    Laws may need to treat Indigenous people differently, inquiry head says

    Exclusive: Head of law reform inquiry into Indigenous incarceration says some laws have had unintended consequences and may need to be changed

24 February 2017

  • Prison

    Sandy's story: how much longer can he handle the court-prison cycle?

    A suspended sentence could have made all the difference to a kind, trustworthy man whose crimes were against himself

23 February 2017

  • Youth mentors Dee-anne Gray (right) and Stanley Willis at Ceduna Youth Hub.

    Ceduna's bid to keep its Indigenous youth out of jail

  • A mural of the Rainbow Serpent in Bourke

    Funding for communities, not prisons: the promise of justice reinvestment

    Alistair Ferguson and Sarah Hopkins

22 February 2017

  • Sunlight across fields around Cowra

    The small town trying to shift spending from punishment to prevention

  • An Indigenous child

    'You're not alone': how a bush camp gave Indigenous teenagers a sense of pride

21 February 2017

  • Prison corridor

    Yes, we jail too many Indigenous Australians – but what happens next is worse

    Megan Williams
  • Paul with his best mate Reggie at the Shed

    The Shed: 'I keep coming because there are people who listen'

  • Indigenous incarceration

    'I realised I never was able to help one child': where the justice system fails

  • Living in Perth’s Joondalup, Hurst and his friends were detached from the mainstream community and spent their nights running from police.

    Keeping clear of prison: 'I can't go back in there'

20 February 2017

  • Illustration for interactive

    Jacob's story: a second chance or a path to prison? – interactive case study

    Follow a 13-year-old Indigenous boy through the youth justice system and see what happens when he is cautioned, charged or placed in custody
  • Handprints on a steel fence

    Indigenous incarceration rates are not an intractable problem – we have the solutions

    Shane Duffy and Antoinette Braybrook
    As a new series starting today in Guardian Australia today shows, communities have answers but their governments need to start listening
  • An Aboriginal flag

    Indigenous incarceration: turning the tide on colonisation's cruel third act

    In a new Guardian series, we explore what can and is being done to change the statistics that shame Australia
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