Comment

Our overcrowded prisons and recidivist governments

By Ross Fitzgerald
Updated April 24 2018 - 10:40pm, first published December 16 2016 - 8:02pm

The stark, unpalatable reality is that the numbers of prisoners in Australia grew 8 per cent from 36,134 in 2015 to 38,845 in 2016. This is nothing short of scandalous.

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