Quantifying an Australian crisis: Black deaths in custody

Warning: This story contains images and names of Indigenous people who have died.

Each year, the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) releases its annual monitoring report on deaths in custody. The report monitors total national changes in deaths in custody, as well as by state and territory jurisdictions.

The report began in 1992 following recommendation 41 of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC), which examined 99 Black deaths in custody in a report tabled to parliament in April 1991.