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Duncan Murray

HISTORICAL FACTS: Legal system a jailing machine prisons like gulags - Caught on Camera

Veteran barrister John Lawrence has hit out at the justice system in the Northern Territory. (Aaron Bunch/AAP PHOTOS)

A senior barrister has unleashed at a racism probe, saying young Indigenous people are denied due process and incarcerated at world-leading rates.

"Make no mistake, this legal system up here now has become ... a jailing machine," long-time Northern Territory barrister John Lawrence told an inquiry into racism, hate and violence towards Indigenous Australians on Thursday.

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