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Human Rights Watch is urging the NT government to reconsider controversial youth bail laws, warning they could ruin children s lives .
The government has proposed making changes to the Bail Act and Youth Justice Act to cut crime, keep the community safe and put victims first .
Police would also have more power to electronically monitor adolescents who are alleged to have committed a crime.
The proposed new laws were put before the NT parliament on Wednesday, sparking outrage from justice groups and setting in motion a protest through the streets of Darwin.
Human Rights Watch researcher Sophie McNeil said the laws could result in more Indigenous youths ending up in juvenile detention.
Justice support scheme for cognitively impaired youth and adults at risk
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People with cognitive impairments including brain injuries and intellectual disabilities may be forced to appear in NSW courts and participate in police interviews without a qualified support person as a critical advocacy service fears its government funding will run out.
The Justice Advocacy Service, run by the Intellectual Disability Rights Service (IDRS), provides support to people with cognitive impairments who come into contact with the criminal justice system as victims, witnesses, suspects and defendants.
Guest Profile: Reverend Vivian Nixon
Reverend Vivian D. Nixon is Executive Director of College & Community Fellowship (CCF) a New York City organization that helps women and families most harmed by mass criminalization gain equitable access to opportunity and human rights. Reverend Nixon identifies herself as a joyfully Black woman whose release from correctional oversight gave rise to a search for true liberation and guided her academic and career choices. Her work at CCF, and beyond, advances justice through economic and social equity, anti-racism, civic engagement, and artistic expression.
Instructed and ordained in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Reverend Nixon has an MFA from Columbia School of the Arts, and currently teaches at Bennington College’s Center for the Advancement of Public Action. Recognized with multiple honors, she is a recipient of the John Jay Medal for Justice and Fellowships with programs at the Aspen Institute, Open Society Foundations, and Pen A
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With 12,707 adults incarcerated in the NSW
prison system last September, this state continues to be the
greatest incarcerator in the country.
Successive state governments of both persuasions, however,
haven t seen this as an opportunity to invest elsewhere. Rather
channelling funds into this state s correctional facilities has
become a favoured pastime for parliamentarians.
The Baird government announced a $3.8 billion four year funding package in
2016 to increase the capacity of this state s correctional
facilities by 7,000 beds. Prisons were expanded, new facilities
were built, while others were repurposed.