1851 - Over-policing of Aboriginal children in Australia: A system that criminalises Aboriginal children - Penal Reform International
For the 30-year RCIADIC anniversary, VALS spoke with Aunty Rosemary Roe, the aunt of G.J. Roe who died in custody in 1997, aged 11 years old. She described her nephew’s experience with police in Western Australia: This young lad was only 11. He actually was targeted too much in the last 6 months of his life… He had an older brother that… spent like 25 to 43 years of his life in and out of juvenile and adult detention centres… in the end, [the police officers] were treating the young boy iden...