Change the Record

Key focus areas

Reforming bail and mandatory sentencing laws which contribute to high rates First Nations People being incarcerated.

• Raising the age of legal responsibility in all States and Territories to at least 14 to reduce the numbers of First Nations children in detention.
• Reinvesting funds from the costly and ineffective prison system into social programs that address the underlying causes of violence and detention of First Nations Peoples.
• Addressing the housing crisis and improving social security for First Nations Peoples.

Change the Record advocates for strong investment into holistic early intervention, prevention and diversion strategies and works to support campaigns that endorse these approaches.

• Raise the Age
• Get Kids out of Watch Houses
• Murdered and Missing Women
• Justice Reinvestment

Get Involved

• Watch more videos from the Change the Record Campaign
• Further Reading on the First Nations mass incarceration crisis: ANTAR blog by Cheryl Axelby, Co-chair of Change the Record
• Deaths in Custody: ANTAR analysis, current statistics and profiles of some of the First Nations People who have died in custody since the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
• Incarceration Nation: watch and share the groundbreaking documentary on First Nations hyper-incarceration.
• Join the Movement for Transformative Justice and stand with ANTAR in calling on governments to overhaul criminal legal systems.

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