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Many people in the Northern Territory think more offenders should be locked up and for longer. According to the latest newspaper poll, a large percentage of punters think the Territory is lenient on criminals. But this couldn’t be further from the truth. Territory courts are three times more likely to be sentence defendents to jail compared to other Australian States. So why have people got it so wrong?

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