Bridges and barriers: addressing Indigenous incarceration and health

National Indigenous Drug and Alcohol Committee (2009)
Bridges and barriers: addressing Indigenous incarceration and health.
Canberra: Australian National Council on Drugs

This report summarises the health risks for Indigenous detainees, as well as the possible reasons for their over representation in the prison population. The report contains long-term and short term recommendations, developed specifically for Indigenous offenders within the community and the corrections system, in order to reduce their high level of incarceration and to improve their health and wellbeing. The aim is also to aid the re-integration of Indigenous prisoners and juvenile detainees.

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract

• Further information:
  • View report (PDF – 420KB)
  •  Bridges and Barriers – the impact of incarceration on Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander children
    View media release: SNAICC (22 July 2009)
  • Deafening silence
    View article: National Indigenous Times (9 July 2009)
  • Drugs linked to dramatic Indigenous prisoner numbers
    View media release: ABC News (25 June 2009)
  • Indigenous prisoners: solutions for a broken system
    View media release: NIDAC (25 June 2009) (PDF – 120KB)
  • View website: National Indigenous Drug and Alcohol Committee
  • View website: Australian National Council on Drugs
• Contact details:
  • NIDAC Secretariat, PO Box 205, Civic Square ACT 2608, ph: (02) 6166 9600, fax: (02) 6162 2611, email: nidac@ancd.org.au, website: www.nidac.org.au