Incarceration Nation

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Incarceration Nation
Directed byDean Gibson
Written byDean Gibson
Produced byHelen Morrison
CinematographyMark Broadbent
Edited byLindi Harrison
Music byGlen Hunt
Tane Matheson
Peter Thornley
Running time
90 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Incarceration Nation is a 2005 documentary film written and directed by Dean Gibson. It looks the Australian justice system's treatment of indigenous people and some of the driving factors behind that.

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Reception

Writing in the Sydney Morning Herald Craig Mathieson gave it 4 stars and states "It’s about a country that disproportionately punishes its original inhabitants, and it is in turn unnerving, shocking, and tragic; Gibson does not blink. It captures how the system can fail the individual, and with a test program in the NSW town of Bourke how some basic improvements might actually be made." [1] Also in the Sydney Morning Herald Bridget McManus gave it 4 stars. She says "the film expands with evidence that has been hiding in plain sight. With the blessing of courageous families, incredibly distressing vision of abuse and neglect at the hands of police and prison officers is relayed. Indigenous lawyers, barristers and advocates – many of them relatively new faces on television – dissect the issue, tracing it back to colonisation with appalling historical footnotes, and offer solutions." [2] Eddie Cockrell of the Weekend Australian wrote "Incarceration Nation is distressing and exhausting, and that may well be the point". [3]

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References

  1. Mathieson, Craig (25 August 2021), "Don't just look to the US to find a long history of racial genocide", The Sydney Morning Herald
  2. McManus, Bridget (29 August 2021), "Incarceration Nation: how our judicial system punishes the Indigenous", The Sydney Morning Herald
  3. Cockrell, Eddie (28 August 2021), "The bites", The Weekend Australian
  4. Fowler, Bella (20 June 2022), "All the winners from the 2022 Logie Awards", news.com.au