The @NNetworkAu state that the latest data revealing a record surge in violence within South Australia’s prisons is a damning indictment of the government’s failed reliance on incarceration. ‘With 481 assaults recorded in the last financial year—more than double the previous year’s figures—it is clear that prisons are not places of rehabilitation or safety but sites of escalating harm and systemic violence.' ‘Rather than throwing hundreds of millions of dollars into prison expansions, the @PMalinauskasMP Government needs to start thinking outside of the cage. The Government must urgently develop a decarceration strategy that prioritises reducing the prison population, investing in community-based solutions, and dismantling the systemic racism that sees Indigenous people disproportionately locked up. We must stop responding to harm with more harm.' Our full press release is attached.