Prisons don’t create safer communities, so why is Australia spending billions on building them?

By Emma Russell, ARC DECRA Associate Professor in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies, La Trobe University
Andrew Burridge, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Macquarie University
Francis Markham, ARC DECRA Fellow, Australian National University
Naama Blatman, Scientia Senior Lecturer, Cities Institute, UNSW Sydney
Natalie Osborne, Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering and Built Environment, Griffith University

Research shows 37 new prisons have been built in Australia since 2000. But the evidence shows increased incarceration doesn’t help reduce crime.

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