SYDNEY: The detention of indigenous children has become a national crisis in Australia, Amnesty International said on Tuesday, and demanded the government do more to stem what it termed a spiraling epidemic.
A new Amnesty report, A Brighter Tomorrow, said Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children were 26 times more likely to be jailed than their non-indigenous counterparts.
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