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>Australia's incarceration rate has doubled in the last three decades, and more than doubled among Indigenous Australians, with First Nations children jailed at 20 times the rate of non-First Nations children.

>The rate has risen from one per cent of Indigenous Australians in 1990 to 2.3 per cent in 2022.

>The figure is even higher in states such as WA [Western Australia], where 3.5 per cent of Indigenous adults are behind bars.

>The figures come despite the country's crime rate decreasing in the same period.

>As of this year, the national incarceration rate is 202 prisoners per 100,000 adults, compared to just 96 per 100,000 in 1985.

SBS News