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Parole board chair says NT Government cuts will worsen Aboriginal incarceration rates
The scrapping of dedicated rehabilitation funding for people released on parole will frustrate efforts to reduce Indigenous incarceration rates and improve community safety, the chair of the Northern Territory Parole Board has said.
Key points:
- The chairman says scrapping the support services “will add” to the NT’s high Indigenous incarceration rates
- He says COMMIT parole and “vital” support services reduce reoffending and save money
- Former prisoner Tahlee McKerlie says she’d be “using or in jail” without her residential rehab stint
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