'Ruining lives without improving safety': former AG takes aim at imprisonment rates

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'Ruining lives without improving safety': former attorney-general Bob Debus takes aim at imprisonment rates

, show the long-term growth in the prison population in NSW has stabilised at 13,400 adult prisoners but has not yet dropped markedly.

There was a sharp drop in the number of women inmates over the past year, but the number of Aboriginal men in custody increased 2.4 per cent, from 2991 in June last year to 3063 this year. He said there was a "plethora of studies confirming the commonsense conclusion that prison is damaging for individuals at a psychological level, especially in the absence of rehabilitative services".

"How can our society leave this personal and social damage to escalate continuously? It is ruining lives without improving the safety of the community," Mr Debus said.

 

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