Monday, October 26, 2015

VICE INTL: Life as a Young, Indigenous, A-Class Offender in Australia

Australia's Indigenous population is consistently overrepresented in the country's prisons, but it's even more apparent in the juvenile justice system. In 2014, a report on New South Wales stated that young people of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background made up 48 percent of all young people in state custody—the national average in the adult system is 28 percent.

To get an idea of what life is like for an Indigenous offender in juvie, we followed rapper and proud Yorta-Yorta man Briggs into Reiby—a Juvenile Justice Center on the outskirts of Sydney.



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