Real-time reporting to monitor Aboriginal deaths in custody

New data dashboard to provide up-to-date information supplied by states and territories

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Governments will be held more accountable for their criminal justice systems with the launch of a new source of information on Indigenous deaths in custody.

Since the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody released its report in 1991 there have been more than 540 First Nations deaths in custody.

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