Supporting Criminalised Women, Girls, Children and Families
Sisters Inside is an Aboriginal-led organisation advocating for the human rights of women and girls in prison and their families. We provide vital services to break cycles of poverty, violence, and incarceration, creating pathways to safety, healing, and freedom.
Your support helps women rebuild their lives.
Services and Programs
We know that ANY time spent in prison harms women and children. Therefore, our overarching goal is to reduce the number of women in prison – supporting them to avoid going to prison in the first place, to apply for parole as soon as they are eligible, and to stay out of prison following release.
For Women
We provide in-prison and community-based programs across Queensland focused on safety, wellbeing and justice. These include sexual assault and anti-violence counselling, health support, parole and bail advocacy, and decarceration initiatives that help women leave prison sooner and stay out.
For Mum’s & Kids
Our programs help mothers in prison maintain relationships with their children and rebuild family life after release. Through initiatives like Building on Women’s Strengths (BOWS) and Child and Parenting Support (CaPS), we assist with family reunification, parenting skills, and healing from trauma – because every child deserves stability and love.
For Young People
We support young people affected by the prison system to stay connected to family, culture and community. Programs like ReConnect, Yangah and Barista Sistas focus on education, employment, and creative expression, empowering young people, especially First Nations girls, to build safer, stronger futures.
Five to Free Her
Sisters Inside is calling on everyone to contribute just $5 a week to bring joy, safety and freedom to the women and kids we walk alongside.
With new laws like “adult crime, adult time”, our children are being punished and locked up.
We’re responding with love, care and connection to address the underlying issues affecting criminalised women and children.
Just five bucks a week, less than the cost of a coffee, can make a real difference in someone’s life.
Your donations help us provide:
News and Advocacy
CHILD SAFETY REPORT
Our bodies are not the property of the state: Sisters Inside backs Bill to end strip searching of childrenSisters Inside is honoured to be working alongside Senator Lidia Thorpe and her team in support of the Crimes Amendment (Prohibiting the Strip Searching of...
TOWNSVILLE PRISON EXPANSION
$730 MILLION FOR 200 PRISON CELLS: STOP SELLING CAGES AS AN ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITYSisters Inside condemns the Queensland Government’s staggering $730 million expansion of Townsville Correctional Centre. This expansion is being sanitised as a “capacity uplift” and...
QUEENSLAND’S BAIL CRACKDOWN IS A DECLARATION OF WAR ON CHILDREN, POOR PEOPLE AND THE PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE
Sisters Inside condemns the Crisafulli Government’s proposed bail laws as a calculated attack on fundamental legal rights and another dangerous escalation in Queensland’s love affair with imprisonment.