Could the pandemic open the doors to prison reform?

Marie McInerney writes: Around the world, COVID-19 has raised deep anxieties about the welfare of prisoners, but it is also leading to hope that emerging from the pandemic to a “new normal” might bring long-overdue, meaningful prison reform. In Darwin, lawyer David Woodroffe is used to seeing prisons packed with disproportionately high numbers of Aboriginal […]

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