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- By embracing participants as artists rather than ex-offenders The Torch provides an avenue for change.
First Nations Australians make up around 2% of the Australian population yet represent 28% of the national prison population.
Since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody handed down its report in 1991, incarceration rates for Indigenous Australians have doubled.
Today Indigenous men are 15 times more likely to go to prison than non-Indigenous men and Indigenous women are 21 times more likely to go to prison than non-Indigenous women.
Indigenous prisoners are more likely to be on remand and to be serving shorter prison sentences, with many spending less than 1 year in prison. Indigenous prisoners are also more likely to have had a prior period of...
