Justice reinvestment is an emerging approach to addressing expanding prison populations. The merits of the justice reinvestment approach adopted in the United States and the United Kingdom to divert funding from correction budgets for investment in programs to reduce criminal behaviour in communities with a high rate of criminal offense are discussed, also analysing its potential for application in the Indigenous context in Australia. It is suggested that the approach is a worthy replacement to costs of Indigenous over-imprisonment, also being in line with policy aims to fulfill the social and economic needs of Indigenous communities.