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Another Housing Crisis

Kelly Flanagan is a First Nations artist and writer with lived experience of the Victorian prison system. She is an advocate for women and social justice, drawing on her experience to challenge systemic harm. Kelly is currently writing her first book and is a proud member of Flat Out and the FIGJAM Collective.

Willy Pleasance

About Time Magazine,

I appreciate seeing my artwork in the recent edition of the Magazine :) Looks great. Thank you so much. My artist name is Aalayah and I am currently serving a sentence at DPFC. I sell my artwork via The Torch for Victorian prisoners, where my work can be found under my artist name Aalyah. It was such a pleasant surprise to see it. I will keep in touch as I am very eager to write some papers on the lack of housing available for women who go out on parole in Victoria. This is currently an issue I am facing and I would like to call it out and have it published. I was due for parole in March, and my parole is approved but there is no housing for me to go to. It’s amazing how easily they can put me in jail and take away my house, cars, and life then not be held responsible to release me with the basic human necessities I need to live. If you could send me some information in regards to women’s housing after prison, so I can start to put together a paper. Anything at all would be appreciated.

Kind regards,

Kelly, DPFC

This
letter
was originally printed in the
November 2024
edition of About Time.
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