Aboriginal Deaths In Custody

Question 4/ The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in the period between October 1987 and November 1990 investigated the deaths of ninety nine Aboriginal individuals which occurred in police and prison custody in the prior nine years and five months. The report was the first of it’s kind, so broad in its study of the issues relating to the Indigenous community. The report revealed many damning facts including: 1)Aboriginal people were the most disadvantaged group …

…to these cycle of injustice and disadvantage. In all, the report provided 339 recommendations as to improve the condition of the Aboriginal people. More than a decade later, it is important to witness how much of those recommendations have been implemented, and whether the statistics have turned favourably. Results reveal that deaths and incarceration levels are higher than the decade prior to the report, and also Aboriginal people still remain the most disadvantaged and impoverished class.