Twenty years ago, a group of senior citizens took up a bold challenge to help heal prisoners inside jailhouse walls through a partnership known as the Elders Visiting Program.
With the Territory’s prison population surging in recent months corrections and Indigenous leaders agree it’s now more important than ever before. By Lillian Rangiah for ABC News Northern Territory.
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