Dr John Jiggens interview Keith Hamburger about restorative justice in the prison system.
Aboriginal Imprisonment and Recidivism
In 2018 the Queensland government ordered Queensland Productivity Commission (QPC) to compile a report on imprisonment and recidivism. The 700 page report says 30% of the prison population are indigenous. Why are there so few indigenous people working in the prison system?
I can see no proper discussion of lack of aboriginal workers in the QPC report. Why? How is ‘restorative justice’ possible with such poor aboriginal representation working in a prison system.
Is this another example of institutional racism? Why is this not addressed in the QPC report?
