Young, Black and Behind Bars

Name: Young, Black and Behind Bars
Uploaded: 2020-10-29T14:02:08Z
Duration: 50 min 45 s
Description: As the Black Lives Matter movement spreads across the globe, we investigate Australia’s Indigenous incarceration crisis.

As the Black Lives Matter movement spreads across the globe, we investigate Australia’s Indigenous incarceration crisis.

Across Australia, Indigenous people are disproportionately arrested and locked up – some as young as 10 years old.

In this special report, former inmates reveal what it is like to be imprisoned as a child.

As the Black Lives Matter Movement resonates across the globe and Indigenous Australians lead nationwide protests, families describe the heartbreak of losing a loved one to a life behind bars.

From outback communities to inside a youth jail, 101 East goes to the front lines of the criminal justice system in Western Australia, the state with the country’s highest rate of Indigenous incarceration.