lot going to 2022, i were still being left behind me. aboriginal criminal justice research of hannah mclean says the pathway from poverty to prison that confronts indigenous australians dates back to the 1800 to the aboriginal people were from the point of contact with the colonists was subjected to very crow incarceration. men from all around the state were round about whenever they resisted site laws around servitude or slavery of me today. indigenous incarceration rights continue to increase between 242014. the number of aboriginal prisoners nationally rose by 8 percent. i accept that there are too many operational people in prison. i think we have to are not britain incredibly complex problem to result is the system prices, i don't think. so what we're dealing with is, as i said, a group of people emerging from colonization and we have to be honest about an accept aboriginal people make up just 4 percent of western australia population that account that 39 percent of at all prisoners, experts, blame the states mandatory sentencing laws which impose minimum prison terms and don't allow j