Welcome to About Time

About Time is the national newspaper for Australian prisons and detention facilities

Your browser window currently does not have enough height, or is zoomed in too far to view our website content correctly. Once the window reaches the minimum required height or zoom percentage, the content will display automatically.

Alternatively, you can learn more via the links below.

Donations via GiveNow

Email

Instagram

LinkedIn

ISSUE NO. 16

November 2025

Donate Here

Poetry

In My Cell

By

Bart

Bart writes from a prison in QLD.

Willy Pleasance

Here I sit inside my cell

Thinking to myself

Is this Hell

Cold and dark

with a terrible smell

I think it is

Only time will tell.

The Devil Himself

will visit me

if this is Hell

I'm yet to see

One things for certain

I yearn to be

living life so generously

please help me from this Darkness

I see

As the light will shine bright

So I Can See

Oh what a marvelous creation

The earth is to me.

Here I sit inside my cell

Thinking to myself

Is this Hell

Cold and dark

with a terrible smell

I think it is

Only time will tell.

The Devil Himself

will visit me

if this is Hell

I'm yet to see

One things for certain

I yearn to be

living life so generously

please help me from this Darkness

I see

As the light will shine bright

So I Can See

Oh what a marvelous creation

The earth is to me.

Little Rhyme

By Justin

Here’s a little rhyme. As I’m chilling doing time, paying the price for my crime.

Creative

ISSUE NO. 24

1 MIN READ

Mother

By Biannca

What did you see when you looked at me? Just a little girl, I had no voice, you kept me down without a choice. You gave heartache and pain, said I was your endless shame.

Creative

ISSUE NO. 24

2 MIN READ

One Day We Will Be Free

By Matt

They talked to us about our struggles, their words we could not hear, while being condemned and held accountable; our vision was not clear.

Creative

ISSUE NO. 24

1 MIN READ

All for One, One for All at Bandyup

By Ruth

Bandyup is a place, where we are a mixed race. It doesn’t matter where we are from, we should support each other as one.

Creative

ISSUE NO. 24

1 MIN READ