Fighting Indigenous Imprisonment
Pastor and former prison guard Uncle Isaac Gordon has declared war against the scourge of Indigenous imprisonment. He fights to build a healing centre to overcome the Aboriginal incarceration crisis.
Indigenous people make up only 2.5% of Australia's population. Yet 26% of all Australian prisoners are indigenous, as are 40% of all juvenile prisoners. "I've always said that we had a stolen generation, but now we've got a lost generation", says Uncle Isaac Gordon. He has watched swathes of rootless, persecuted young Aborigines enter a cycle of crime, drug use and prison, which the Australian government has failed to act upon. "They come out then go back to jail, and it's continual", he says. Can a shift to community self-help, driven by people like Uncle Isaac, be the answer to tackling the problem of unfair indigenous imprisonment?
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