Hi, I just want to send congratulations on your first issue reaching my prison.

Hey guys, I love getting the chance to read about other prisoners all around the country each month and thought I would share my story.

It is not a pleasurable experience. It is very difficult to face all those emotions and reflect over the course of your whole life.

I was always drawing as a kid, and when the opportunity came up to do an art course at age 17 I went for it.

I remember our living room used to be filled with hundreds of CDs. My mum is where my love of music came from.

You can have as many support workers and parole officers as you can get, but it will never make you stop doing crimes. It has to come from within yourself.

I have read in quite a few issues that other inmates have been feeling the same sting of phone charges that I was.

I understand that people have done a lot in my life to better my future – that includes my whole family.  And for that I am so grateful to all. "God is good to us all.”

The jail preaches about priding themselves on keeping family connections, yet they are rejecting child visit applications.

With all that constantly on my mind, I can’t help but wonder what can be done to help the mental health of our fellow inmates around Australia. So I’ve come up with an idea!