One Of 2022’s Great Failures Was That The Rate Of Indigenous Deaths In Custody Increased

The end of a year is a time for reflection on the past 12 months’ highs, lows, successes and failures and perhaps Australia’s greatest failure in 2022 was the rate of Indigenous deaths in custody rising, more than 31 years after the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. The Australian Institute of Criminology’s (AIC) annual report on deaths in custody released on Monday found 106 deaths in custody were recorded in the 12 months to June 2022. Of those, 24 were First Nations people — 16 died in prison custody and eight in police custody. This brings the total tally of Indigenous deaths in custody since the 1991 Royal Commission into the trend to 516. But three decades later and two and a half years since the massive Black Lives Matter movement in Australia that saw tens of thousands marching against over-incarceration of First Nations people, things are only getting worse. So allow us to paint you a picture by numbers to close out 2022.

First Nations over-imprisonment

the most incarcerated on Earth3.2 per cent of our total populationBob Hawke

Deaths in custody

Source: AIC NDICP 1981–2022

a 26-year-old Aboriginal man43-year-old Glen Francis died

What’s going to happen in 2023?

Voice to Parliamenthalf the children in youth detention on any given day are Indigenousit was also revealedCalls to overhaul the youth justice systemSome jurisdictions have taken steps this year to raise the agecommitting to raise it in four years’ time

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