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Article: Grief in Gaol: indigenous women's incarceration problems in Australia.(women in prisons)

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December 1, 2003
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Indigenous women in Australia face a multitude of problems when it comes to incarceration. Often, their problems stem from the discrimination they experience because of their ethnicity. These conclusive facts were presented in the 2002 Social Justice Report (the annual report by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner to Australia's federal Parliament).

This report reveals the alarming increase in the number of Indigenous women imprisoned in recent years. Within a ten-year span, a 255.8 percent increase has been noted: from 104 women imprisoned in 1991 to about 370 in 2001. The problem lies not only in the increasing number of crimes ...

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