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Indigenous Australians Are Being Imprisoned At A Startling Rate

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• published: 08 Sep 2016
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Fighting Indigenous Imprisonment (2015): There's something seriously wrong with Australia's prison system. For similar stories, see: Are Australian Laws Biased Against Aborigines? (2000) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grXVww-lj6Y Fighting Australia's Indigenous Imprisonment Problem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MWjmpia7cQ Then the Wind Changed - Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9xL1kLGfng Subscribe to journeyman for daily uploads: http://www.youtube.com/journeymanpictures For downloads and more information visit: https://www.journeyman.tv/film/6410 Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/journeymanpictures Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JourneymanVOD https://twitter.com/JourneymanNews Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/journeymanpictures 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? Bill Code – Ref. 6410 Journeyman Pictures is your independent source for the world's most powerful films, exploring the burning issues of today. We represent stories from the world's top producers, with brand new content coming in all the time. On our channel you'll find outstanding and controversial journalism covering any global subject you can imagine wanting to know about.