Australia: Why are our prisons full of domestic violence victims?

Article here. Excerpt:

'One emerging but "alarming" phenomenon leading to women's criminalisation, lawyers and advocates say, is the growing number of domestic violence victims being misidentified by police as primary aggressors — and named as respondents on family violence intervention orders.
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The trend is also being observed in Queensland and New South Wales, with the chief executive of Sisters Inside Debbie Kilroy advising the Australian Law Reform Commission last year that her organisation was seeing, "rising rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women charged with breaches of domestic violence protection orders, often in circumstances where the police (rather than the intimate partner) have applied to impose the order".'

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... nearly everything it says is just as applicable to male prisoners. And yet, no one talks about that.

For both sexes, it comes down to living with the consequences of the choices you make. Did you smoke ice? Did you know doing so was a felony? So who do you have to blame?

It's that simple.

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