Kelly Flanagan is a female First Nations artist with lived experience in the Victorian prison system. She is a proud member of the FIGJAM collective and continues to advocate for those women who are still suffering inside the prison. Kelly is also using her lived experience to write her first book.
I was due for parole in March, and my parole is approved but there is no housing for me to go to.
I am a prisoner at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre and have been since February 2022. I have no family in Melbourne that can visit me in person. Nor do they drop off property or top up my account with money. I solely rely on my wages from working a full-time job inside the prison.
“Parole approved pending housing.” This is by far the worst sentence I have heard in prison.
My release date was the 18th of March 2025, and in one month I have accomplished so many things.
I destroy homes, I tear families apart, take your children, and that’s just the start. I’m more costly than diamonds, more precious than gold, the sorrow I bring is a sight to behold.
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