Pat Dodson Condemns Aboriginal Youth Incarceration Rates & Child Removals: 'Embarrassing'

Pat Dodson Condemns Aboriginal Youth Incarceration Rates & Child Removals: 'Embarrassing'

Former Labor senator Patrick Dodson has condemned the way Australia treats Indigenous children as a modern form of genocide, highlighting the country’s Aboriginal youth incarceration rates and child removals as an “embarrassing sore”. Speaking to Guardian Australia, the Yawuru elder described the troubling figures as an “assault on the Aboriginal people”. “It’s an assault on the Aboriginal people. I don’t say that lightly [but] if you want…

OP-ED: Community Support Increases Community Safety, Not Incarceration

Over ten years ago, I launched the Maryland Justice Project to ensure that women leaving prison had the tools they needed to succeed as they reentered their communities. MJP is just one of many nonprofit organizations in Maryland that are the backbone of safety in our community — organizations working every day to interrupt cycles of harm, support successful reentry, and meet people where they are. But instead of expanding access to proven safet…