Increased incarceration of First Nations women is interwoven with the experience of violence and trauma
- Written by: Deirdre Howard-Wagner, Senior Fellow, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
Tinnakorn jorruang / shutterstockThere is a national incarceration crisis impacting First Nations women in Australia.
First Nations women are the fastest-growing prison population, constituting 37% of the female prison population, despite making up only 2% of Australia’s total population. The daily average number of women in full-time...
