ISSUE NO. 17
December 2025
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Holiday Messages from Loved Ones on the Outside

Ike Curtis

‘She Is Me’: Stories By Us, For Us

By Stacey Stokes and Tahlia Isaac

Project: herself is an organisation I set up to advocate and support women to have self-determined lives. We do that through a couple of things – including storytelling advocacy and frontline service delivery.

News and Investigations

ISSUE NO. 20

4 MIN READ

Around the Country – February 2026

By About Time

Including a death in custody at Acacia prison in WA, Victoria spending the most on youth detention, remand numbers skyrocketing in NSW and more.

News and Investigations

ISSUE NO. 20

10 MIN READ

Our Voices at the United Nations: A Joint Fight for Human Rights

By Sisters Inside, National Network of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, Scarlet Alliance and Asian Migrant Sex Worker Advisory Group

In July 2025, four organisations came together to make sure the truth about prisons, policing and criminalisation in Australia was heard on the world stage.

News and Investigations

ISSUE NO. 20

2 MIN READ

‘Incredibly Distressing’: When Prison Officers Go On Strike

By Denham Sadler

In October last year, thousands of New South Wales prison officers also went on strike, plunging incarcerated people into abrupt and extended lockdowns.

News and Investigations

ISSUE NO. 20

4 MIN READ

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