Young, Black and Behind Bars: 101 East investigates Australia's Indigenous Incarceration Crisis
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ต.ค. 2020
- Across Australia, Indigenous people are disproportionately arrested and locked up - some as young as 10 years old.
In this special report, former inmates reveal what it is like to be imprisoned as a child.
As the Black Lives Matter Movement resonates across the globe and Indigenous Australians lead nationwide protests, families describe the heartbreak of losing a loved one to a life behind bars.
From outback communities to inside a youth jail, 101 East goes to the front lines of the criminal justice system in Western Australia, the state with the country’s highest rate of Indigenous incarceration.
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Executive Producer: Sharon Roobol
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Where is the outcry for indigenous women, being beaten raped and killed every week. Where is The heart break for the victims of the criminals. I understand the pain suicide causes, to families, but this young man was troubled and not an innocent.
Exactly.
And don't forget the rampant chid abuse.
Stop disproportionately engaging in criminal activity and you won't be disproportionately locked up.
Free Australia
Thank you
What about the victims of these little sweethearts?
What about the victims
Totally agree with you...it's sad,but yeah what about the victims..🤷🏻♀️
I agree. They do a crime than complain about the consequences.
They are victims.
How about don't break the law. And you won't go to jail.
Last I checked Yku are innocent unless convicted🙄!
Story for the gods...How about treating everyone fairly?... I still remember a case where a young aboriginal boy was charged for having a stolen chocolate not worth a dollar.... I dont think this can happen to any white teen...So, learn to think.
@Goodslave you can be convicted and still innocent so you are commenting on something you know nothing about.
Go have a look in the mirror
@@maurice7783 aah,yeah it does???and they have progressed to stealing cars,wallets,phones,anything of value,and usually with violence and a weapon,they are not stealing lollies.
@@maurice7783 Aboriginal people commit crimes at incredibly high rates compared to everyone else. And you wonder why there are over 20x as many adult Aborigines in prison per capita, and over 50x as many Aboriginal children in detention per capita. They only have themselves to blame.
best way to stop deaths in custody? don't break the law
w.t.f
You first mate.
A string of burglaries, he only gets 2 years and a parole of 6 months. Yet they still complain about their rights. The cycle of crime continues because of such light sentences
Spot on
agreed if these communities dont want to change then we need to protect society from them.
Reality is, locking people up, harsh sentences, and thus general alienation from the rest of society perpetuates the problem. It’s evident that the issue extends beyond the individual and their rights. The system alienating them p and driving them to commit the crime is to blame. No one wakes up one day and decides to become a criminal.
Its heart breaking to hear Stanley had paint under his nails at the time of his death. R.I.P young man
No one should get special treatment in jail...no one..!!
idiot! No one should be in jail, if they are children. Four hundred and thirty- four people have been killed with zero repercussions (since 1990)
Ah yeah and the outside too? 🤷🏾♂️
You make no sense
What do you mean by "special treatment"?
In prison you are not meant to be loved and you are meant to feel alone. That's prison.
Maybe instead of breaking the law he should have stayed home 🤦🏻♂️
Yes correction, morally, and respect of the laws of the land starts at home, not in jail or some detention centre,but that is the 'elephant' in the room, and no one wants to address that at all on this so called documentary.
It’s okay … it’ll all be over soon . Keep your eyes in the sky 🙃
That doesn’t account for unlawful arrests, over policing, biased sentencing, etc. There’s a reason why the poorest demographics of people get incarcerated at a higher rate in ALL countries. Less resources to be better and less resources to fight back even if you were good.
Aboriginals receive double the amount of funding than any other disadvantaged group in Australia. Stop playing the worlds smallest violin and victim card.
@@swedishfish5622people I see that get sent to prison usually done something
How inspiring is the police cadet program. We need more of this! Good on you Daniel!
Waiting for the usual claims of huge numbers of Aboriginal deaths in custody. Just not true, non-Aboriginal inmates die in custody at a higher rate, the vast majority of natural causes, substance abuse, violence and suicide. Almost nil occur due to interaction with jail staff. The majority of inmates serve less than 6 months in custody. reoffending rates are high. The system is not great, but the alternatives generally favour the offender, not society and victims. A high proportion of offences are committed by offenders on bail.
And 80% of inmate's are indigenous, you are more in danger as any other race in prison in the N.T.Uts not safe to be white in prison.
I hate to say it but if someone is determined they will find a way jail is not a nice place
The storeroom is locked so why was he in there??
Let's face It, If you are indigenous you can't afford to get a good lawyer so In the justice system you are stuffed & for many kids they wonder the streets late at night because it's safer for them while mum & dad are drinking & bashing each other at home, None violent offender shouldn't even be going to prison it serves no purpose & It can often make it worse for someone when they are released.
Ye set them free 😂😂😂
People don’t go to jail for no reason, black or white. Stop playing the victim and abide by society’s rules. What about his burglary victims? How’s their mental state? What do they have to live with for rest of their lives?
Exactly.
They are all innocent... Buying those heavy boots so they could kick a woman to death was an accident
I live in a community where I see indigenous kids that I would estimate to be as young as 5yr walking the streets every night. To my mind a loving, nurturing culture that I hear about describing indigenous culture would not allow that to happen. These kids think that crime, drugs, alcohol are normal because their parents can't take responsibility for their care. If trauma is a problem then seek help, indigenous health care services are available in most towns. Perpetually being a victim due to past atrocities will only mean the cycle of problems will only continue.
There parents are not given jobs to take care of there children because of the Racist people of the Country.Its Sickening.
Aboriginal children are not held to the same legal standards as the rest of the population, in fact they get off far easier. Due to the social outrage, no aboriginal kid is sent to jail unless they are serial repeat offenders. Not to mention no one in this country ends up in prison unless a crime has been committed. I have been robbed numerous times by aborignals and every time the police were able to find who did it but refused to investigate further because in their words "they are aboriginal, they will just get a slap on the wrist". Where is the documentary on the victims of all the crimes that those people committed to send them to prison in the first place?
What if they were homeless with both parents dead and stealing to eat coz there's no other way to get food like the 2 boys on here ignorant
@@lexxxtv1803 if you have had a life filled with suffering, why cause others to suffer? How does that help you or them? Black, white or yellow, if you commit a crime you should be punished. As for stealing for food, this isn't the 1800's, there are literally hundreds of services like Foodbank that provide free meals.
Where’s the documentary on the victims of Australia Day and colonisation?????
@@JoeyTheRossMan young kids don't understand how to even get the food even if there is services, with no help or guidance it's very hard for them but yeah of course there's kids that can get food but choose the criminal way
That right, no one gets in jail for no reason
The law should protection ladies and gentlemen or good people
But sadly, the law is protecting criminals
I agree break the law u should go to jail..this is not what they’re angry about ,it’s about how they are treated in jail.
The fact is uneducated and lower iq , broken families , generations of non workers lead to alcohol and drug abuse leads to violence and child sexual abuse . Let’s hope the facts don’t continue to be buried and the people get the strength to move forward and take ownership of so many of the problems. Jacinta Price is a great leader but gets mixed response from Aboriginal people.
So Jacinta Price has low IQ as well, she's aboriginal isn't she, who introduced the drugs, the alcohol and made it hard for these people, the sexual abuse, the alcohol and drug misuse, the violence etc etc is in all communities, towns, cities and countries, all groups of people of the world are caught up in these bad behaviours, not just one, your comments sounds racist.
*PIay stupid games, win stupid prizes*
*Don't do the crime of you can't do the time*
Same to you
Computer warrior
Some dont have family.
Time is all they doing
@Apeman Commeth i don't call a sytemic, planned set of conditions, designed to bring about extinguishment of access to education, foriegn laws and resources "excuses".
This disaster was developed in Ireland five hundred years ago and exported to the whole British Empire. Make no mistake: this murderous juggernaught will take generations of effort to stop.
Don't do the crime? Provide them with the resources and infrastructures needed to excel like in other cities and see if the rate of crime will not decrease. Poverty breeds crime.
This is the longest episode on this program
Man the 12 year old really shocked me, what is a 12 YO doing committing crimes? The abo community really need to wake up and break the cycle.
Just showed your racism right there. Using racial slurs you are DISGUSTING!!
There are lots of 12 year olds committing crimes and it is common and normal for 12 year olds to commit crimes. 12 year olds are adults or a close to becoming adults. There are also lots of people younger commiting crimes. There are children as young as 5 6 and 7 years old commiting crimes.
@@johnm84pedo logic
@@throngus6128 You're ignorant.
I bet the cops did it !
Lmao there's alot of false information in this video
I just don't get it,, I'm scared of jail,, but yr a career criminal, WTF
Doesn’t matter the colour of their skin , they are in prison for a reason
Unfortunately that isn't true when 10 year olds are put in jail for stealing candy or a young lady who stole some sanitary items. The treatment is not equal. Watch incarceration nation. It aired last night. There are a lot of bad seeds in the system, not the black kids I'm talking about.
I mean your not wrong
POC get targeted more often by police. Everybody knows that it is a common fact
Unfortunately there's systematic institutionalized racism that is rife in prison and unfortunately young first national youth and their families are suffering for it
@@2partiesnotpreferred226
Stealing is wrong
If they want something, PAY for it
28:32 and it only took us 232 years to work this out! how good is that!?
Where are the parents of these youths, why is it everyone else's problem to solve?
These families take no responsibility for the criminality in their families. The government has to follow up 300 recommendations? Just dont break the law. And stop blaming the government for your problems.
These are petty crimes, you should comment on the non indigenous people, that are murdered in Australia.
Are we meant to feel sorry for them? 😂
There needs to be more work camps in the Kimberley for youth rather than prison
Live maters? Should parent go to jail too because they dont know how to tame their own kids don't do bad things thats it.
I cant believe 'hey can we not traumatise and kill children' is a controversial issue. like I have been donating to human rights organisations for ages. I never see anything about our own country. and all the news is so pro police.
maybe you should keep your money,take a trip out to alice springs,and donate money,and time,to help the supposed traumatised children,see how long you last,and your thoughts are still the same.
Don't break the law. Then you won't go to jail. It's that simple
Unfortunately not
What do u reckon? If both of your parents killed themselves by the time you were 10? Your telling me you’d be a model citizen. its never as simple as just don’t break the law.
Exactly.
If aboriginals could afford a smart phone we could laugh at their hilarious response to this. :()
30:54 imagine the toilets in the occupied cells
Imagine the toilets at their “homes” look at how they “care” for where they live at 32.40
@@j-nish3570 well they are very tribal and cultural people pretty sure they're used to living off the land and not having to clean up man made stuff
He got himself to prison he killed himself, look at your self as parents who raised criminals for the answers
From my point of view, it is to divert the attention of the people from all the issues and demands of the people which are linked to the promises of the Prime Minister and nothing else.
The opposition must convey to the people how the rulers are retaliating against the opposition by raising prices.
History has witnessed all the past and present activities of the people and military rulers. The people may understand these tricks.
If we take strict notice, all the bad characters can be eradicated with the determination, struggle, strength of unity of the people.
Criminals
How??? Questions asked but where are the answers??? Or are the answers begining ignored!
For starters you need more cops like him
Great look into the system but why are aboriginal peoples of our land getting into trouble in the beginning? We need to focus on that.
No communication they just left behind remember they try killing them off
Yep!
Don't do the crime don't do the time
Wow how original 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Well done 2pac
Start taking your responsibility for not teaching better values. Stop blaming others when your failure to not see why this will keep happening . LIFE IS SHORT KEEP CLOSING YOUR EYES WILL KEEP REPEATING NEGATIVE RESULTS!
Why don't the government and other Australians take some responsibility as well. Many live a privileged lives compared to our Aboriginal people. Educate yourself.
@@matthewkennedy5730 be responsible for self otherwise someone else will take & enslave
Well said!
@@matthewkennedy5730Everyone has to take responsibility.
Thay are racist y the police alot of tgem too thay are do guts the prison guards that do this to a boy !
there should be no deaths in custody ever especially caused by the staff.
I think the recruitment process should heavily analyse the persons past and character before hiring the person.
There are Some people a lot more heavy handed then some others and they are not aware of this and there should be a proper supervision of staff on the job.
The staff are directed by someone... that someone was given power by the Australian people... I don't think the Australian people care about Indigenous lives. THE SILENCE IS LOUD
@@ellenmcivor4108"the silence is loud" hehe dummy
pk,you have an opinion to fix it all,hhhm,seems rational,security checks,blue cards,white cards,no criminal history police checks,oh wait they do.
Are the police and politicians watching this ????
The Police and colonial white supremist politicians ruling by a 230 yr convict colony colonial criminal Legacy need to watch it.
Recent videos seem to be about stirring racial tensions. Like the one about Asians in US impacted by covid. It was calling for use of violence, which is completely unacceptable and would only cause Asians to lose their hard earned reputation in US. Nobody earns respect by violence. I hope you can start creating more respectable content. I am actually very curious what is happening in Asia atm.
So is your position that this video "stirs" as in creates racial tension? Are you trolling and seeking attention? Because any logical person KNOWS this content is expose existing racial tension, really seems your intent is to stir racial tension by pretending to be ignorant and suggesting this information should remain a secret. Shane
I don't agree with the BLM groups in America, however the plight of Aboriginal youth in this country is heart wrenching. I wonder what all the so called celebrities are doing for these kids.
Because you a racist
They owe nothing to these kids it’s not their fault these kids break the law and end up in prison they bash people, intimidate people, steal from people, and are racist against white people they think because they’re indigenous it gives them the right to do whatever they want and when they get caught and go to prison it’s easier to blame the all oppressive white man
Give trade schools and opportunities
So you racist
Scamming people BLM good for
This is similar to how it is for African Americans in the USA
As an actual Black Americans I disagree and their DNA is different from actual Black people, so they they're not Black. It's like calling Dark skin Indian people who face discrimination Black.
@@yodad723 did you not read the comment properly
@@yodad723 what you mean not black my grandmother grandfather all black people its not only African people are black they showing you City black people
@@yodad723 they are black educate yourself. native american aren't black their like south american
@@yodad723 they are black. But they share different genetics from
Most african Americans
Black or white...do the crime and pay the time.
Sick bars 2pac
Get your young boy to stop hurting people
I believe todays incarceration problem is related to our past, when our ancestors were being chained up beated, and our women being sexually abused, then put on the mission and being segregated from society so no Aboriginal people can't work and provide for there family. As a nation of indigenous Australian we carry the pain, the spiritual connection we all have to our land but can't enjoy our land its damaging to our soul, The government always wanted us to have nothing, second class people on our own country, Anoriginal people have a spiritual connection to our land and thats powerful and if your not aboriginal you will never feel it like we do.
Sounds good but that doesn’t really mean anything bro. Pretty sure I feel just as connected to this land as any aboriginal if not more than most.
@32.40..... check out all the garbage and trash thrown on the ground and tell me again about this connection to the land and nature.
@@j-nish3570 i have no problem with non indigenous Australian bro I'm just stating our experiences so no need for the rubbish that's just showing your true hatred or horrible soul heartless person you might be god bless.
@@j-nish3570 your apart of the problem not the solution.
@@j-nish3570 so if someone came and claimed your house and tortured your family you wouldn't mind
I have kids and to be honest if it was upto the Australian law system children should be in jail from birth cause they don’t listen
How can a child listen to a system without love?
The child protection system is also a joke in Australia underfunded overworked not enough support
Why do they arrest 10 year olds? They are treating them like they are not human. Australia needs to do better by the first nations people.
Because they are committing crimes obviously.
until said ten year old comes through your bedroom window armed with a knife,and wants your phone,atm card,and car keys,get out and see the forest,oh wait theres trees in the road.take a trip to these areas and see if you have the same opinion.
these news items never come on 7 news ,9 news or ABC news. aljazeera great job
Except it’s largely bullshit. In 2021 aboriginals have a lower death rate in custody than non indigenous.
@@j-nish3570 hardly true. Watch incarceration nation just aired last night.
@@2partiesnotpreferred226 actually you are both right. More non indigenous die in incarnation by actual number but per capita aboriginal deaths are higher.
The sad fact is aborigines make up roughly 2.5% of Australia's population yet they make up 50% of jail population
All he ever did was sing too loud in church
30:38 smallpox anyone?
British empire
Wow you really through you did something with at comment by the way you didn’t honey ahah
Some people tell me that if they were given the penalty of indigenous tribal laws for a crime, which could be to be tied to a tree for three days and have spears thrown at their legs they wouldn't want to re-offend. I was told that they are given a choice of either two days of jail with a bed and free meal, or being given the tribal punishment for their crime in the Northern Territory.
Not true
What people said this?
You won’t get the truth from the coroner
Australia needs to tax the mining companies and pay all the indigenous people commission. No aboriginal should be poor. It's their country for gods sake. Call it a annexation tax. I'm not aboriginal but I love aboriginals and all other humans. Long live humanity. Love from your afghan-australian brother.
All of Australia belongs to them? How do you determine this?
They already do it goes directly to the Various indigenous Organizations . 40 billion is spent on Aboriginal Welfare .
uuum,they do hundreds of millions of dollars,from every mining operation in this country,as well as the taxpayers through our disgusting governments,and they do have control over over most land in australia.being a new australian that is great,especially coming from the chaos that you most probably witnessed,but trust me friend,its not all that it seems.
If you don't want your kiddies drying in custody, be decent parents. STOP blaming everyone for your pathetic parenting.
Heartbreaking
Why
Dare this channel do a similar report in communist/socialist countries?
Ignore what your watching... It was produced by the Qatari government
Al Jazeera is Qatari yes, but the English offshoot is either produced in London or Washington DC...both cities of which have stations
All blaming someone else
yeah remember when they were victims of genocides by colonisers all over australia, turning from 100 to 3% of the overall aussie population ? I think that people like you are the ones blaming aboriginal people rather than admiting the irreparable damage of colonisation.
@@mindyfromthetotallyspiesIt was in the past. Stop going on about the past.
@@johnm84 it’s not in the past. People still alive now have been denigrated and abused by the government. Watch the video again maybe ? Because you didn’t learn anything.
And why all of a sudden “aboriginals” are called black ? Where are there ties to Africa ?
Everyone is African, if you go way back.
@@mzalendo24 so me as a white man am I black or like can I will blm and them people now fight for me ?
@@andygary9142 You are actually African, everyone is. Your whiteness is only skin deep. So you should surport blm unequivocally.
Where is your colonial white supremacy brain - on stolen Aboriginal land (blacks land), I guess! Go and dictate your colonial whitewashed hogwash somewhere else. Always been here and always will be.
@N Xarigow so with you’re standard every non white person is black and I know where aboriginals actually come from and I know their genetics to be “black” you have to have certain genetics that are only found with African people which no aboriginal has if you don’t know any facts don’t comment please and thank you
In their own land indigenous people are treated as second class citizens. If there is a God one day those racists responsible for this injustice will be held accountable in this life or the next.
@@acejackson7928 if you offended then you.
It is not their land just because they were there first. The Americans visited the moon first, does this make it theirs?
@@acejackson7928 if you are offended then go hang. Australia is aboriginal native land and that's a fact
If they want it back they’ll have take it back
@Kimani H with all due respect there is hardly any of you left and most of you are in prison and/or too inebriated to do anything, it is what it is I wish you good luck all the same.
Abo's don't know the meaning of personal responsibility🤔
Good 1 keyboard warrior
Stupid comment
The Australian Aborigines need a lot of Loving Kindness and Compassion from themselves and other successful communities to give them the chance to discover their passion and life purposes.
China and Chinese peoples can give them the hope and dream to rejuvenate their community again away from the colonial mentality and enslavement.
Lol what? Tf you talking about
@@bobbobson2430 : Stop treating them like inferior beings
@@gordonsek huh? What are you talking about? The Chinese aren't exactly the ones who treat ppl kindly at all lol. They're colonizing africa as we speak and they're offing uighurs in China as we speak
While The Chinese Government kills their own like flies, please mate.....
CRUSH ccp
kharbakh is Azerbaijan. 🇦🇿
Indeginous lives always matter to me
Race doesn't matter if you are against the law no special treatment.prison is scary that's why don't ever ever do bad things .
Black lives matter😆😆😆
Omg not not funny
Who cares
Terrible behaviour of polce.
I want to inform everbody, who thinks that Kharbakh is armenia, no you are not right, kharbakh is officially recognised as a part of Azerbaijan. today we are in a war and liberating our lands. dont belive in armenia
Technically large portions of Anatolia and areas of Azerbaijan was settled by Armenians several thousand years before Turkic people showed up. And you got rid of them and many other people and cultures. Don't expect any sympathy from us.
@Sabina Zeynalova, why is there an Israeli military base in Azerbaijan?
Good
You know these sort of off-topic posts just generate anger against your cause right?
Child protection services need pulling over the coals too.
ssshoosh now tried that failed stilled paying back financially
Do the crime do the time
Just like everyone else