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The inevitable monotony of another day decays your precious time, alongside your brain cells as you get trapped listening to those who surround you once again.
Prison reflects you like a mirror, you regret every mistake in your life. Everything. And if you want, it brings you back on the right way.
I was 40 years old when I was incarcerated and I could barely run around the block.
I now live in hope that I can find peace within myself, and there is a faint light at the end of a very long tunnel.
I'll never come back to this place, but I’ll always respect the time that I’ve spent in here, and I understand now how and why people return to this place.
Wow, I won the caption comp for December… I’ve never won anything and the whole jail is congratulating me.
With even the prison staff in industries agreeing that our pay rates are ridiculous, how do things stay the same?
The lack of housing is creating a backlog for inmates who otherwise would be eligible for parole.
Dad would always say “there’s something about toiling in the garden, getting your hands in soil, it earths me out.”
I am the volunteer garden billet and some of my responsibilities are garden plot allocation and seed distribution.
From the start of February, people in prison in Victoria will now be charged 25c per minute to make a mobile phone call, down from the previous 57c per minute rate.
Including Labor pushing for mandatory minimums for hate crimes and terror offences, the Age of Criminal Responsibility rising in 2025 in the ACT, new NSW laws to target antisemitism and hate speech and more.
Prison work differs across the country.
The Midsumma Pride March sees tens of thousands march down Fitzroy Street in St Kilda, with many more turning out to cheer them on.
Education is not regarded as the most significant risk factor for reoffending but there is an undeniable link between a lack of education and crime.
I needed closure to help me live a normal life, but it was not forthcoming. I was reaching out for closure but it never came.
If you’ve experienced gardening, you’re likely well acquainted with the mental health benefits of getting your hands dirty.
Naloxone is a medicine that can be used by anyone to reverse a potentially fatal opioid overdose.
Grief does not discriminate as to whether the loss is ‘good’ or ‘bad’ for you; it is about the absence of something you have held close for a long time.
Join the dozens of law firms and other organisations advertising in Australia’s monthly prison newspaper.
The federal election is coming up. It happens about every three years. It’s for electing the government for the whole country – the federal government.
This article discusses some of the human rights that may be relevant in prison with reference to human rights protections under the Human Rights Act 2019 (QLD) in Queensland.
I wonder if you could explain the new "No Body No Parole" law in New South Wales, where now people charged with murder or manslaughter need letters from the head of police?
Getting a job after prison is hard for most people. If you had a job before you went in, you may not be able to go back to it, or you might not want to.
This is my interpretation of Country. The greens and browns take me back to the quiet and secluded areas I've worked on and stayed on whilst camping and living off Country.
A wide-ranging report commissioned by the federal government has called for “urgent and proactive” system-level reforms to improve the standard of health care provided to First Nations people in prison.
Welcome to the planet where the apes are rulers and the humans – as far as we know – are reduced to a subspecies.
I've read thousands of novels over the last fifty-odd years and not one of them was romance, but while I'm trying new things – like paraplegia and prison – I might as well add in a romance novel to my life experience.
Here's just a few of my crochet art projects – this is what you can achieve if you learn how to crochet!
Most of the day in school I would spend in art as my teacher Mrs Crawford was the only one that seemed to understand me and get my ADHD. She made me feel equal.
There is a kind of peace that comes with routine. A familiarity that numbs you to the monotony of everyday life.
To me it means hard work and rough times, you have to work for what you want and there will always be barriers and things/people trying to bring you down.
Most of the day in school I would spend in art as my teacher Mrs Crawford was the only one that seemed to understand me and get my ADHD. She made me feel equal.
To me it means hard work and rough times, you have to work for what you want and there will always be barriers and things/people trying to bring you down.
There is a kind of peace that comes with routine. A familiarity that numbs you to the monotony of everyday life.
It's about time, I outline, the walls we're within. No doubts fly, no routes fine, the way I'm living.
Lights on, doors slam, go running to the phone. Dial the number hit the hash, and wonder if they're home. Spend the first minute saying hello, fight to say a word. Tell them that you love them and hope that you are heard.
Tears on my pillow, pain in my heart. The day they put me in prison, my whole world fell apart.
If you have a better joke please send them to us because these ones are terrible!
What would you caption the below photo? Click through and tell us in the comments!
Discover as many words as possible. A word can only be formed if each letter is side-by-side, above or below, or on the diagonal with the next.
Can you find all the words from the clues?
Play this card game with your friends! To win a game of Slapjack you will need to quickly slap the deck whenever a jack is played in order to win all of the cards.
How many of this month's quiz questions do you know?
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