The committee found the detention rate for indigenous juveniles was 397 per 100,000, which is 28 times higher than the rate for non-indigenous juveniles at 14 per 100,000. Indigenous juveniles account for 59 per cent of the total juvenile population in jail.
The imprisonment rate in the adult indigenous community was just as dire, with a 55 per cent increase in men in prison in the past decade and a 47 per cent rise of women in custody.
20 years on, black kids still fill jails, parliamentary committee finds
