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Calls for state accountability after three more Black deaths in custody

The NSW deaths only came to light after Greens MLC David Shoebridge asked Corrective Services Commissioner Peter Severin at a NSW budget estimates on March 9. Severin defended authorities’ silence saying that it was “not appropriate” to advise the public of deaths without any detail and “cause a lot of anger, a lot of angst and a lot of grief”. Karly Warner, spokesperson for the Aboriginal Legal Service NSW/ACT (ALS), called for government accountability. “While identification of people who die in custody must be up to families, the government should be more transparent and timely in the information they share with the public,” she said on March 9.

Most ACT youth offenders breach community orders

CANBERRA has the lowest proportion of young people successfully completing community-based orders (CBO) in Australia, according to the report on Government Services 2021. A CBO gives offenders the opportunity to cease their criminal behaviour through rehabilitation and education programs while also allowing them to remain in school or work, and is considered incomplete when a court decides the order has been breached. Figures from the report show only 45.8 per cent of offenders in the ACT sentenced to a CBO successfully completed them in 2019-20, in contrast to the national average of 82.8 per cent. When it comes to indigenous youth the figures take even more of a dive, with only 15.9 per cent of indigenous young people in the ACT completing their CBOs in comparison to a national average of 80.8 per cent.

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