Radical plan to overhaul sentencing of Aboriginal offenders

By Michaela Whitbourn
Updated September 20 2017 - 7:48am, first published 7:43am

Judges and magistrates would be required to take into account an offender's Aboriginal background and consider ways to reduce the Indigenous prisoner population under a radical overhaul of sentencing laws drafted by leading lawyers and submitted to a national inquiry.

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