End Toxic Prisons
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‘End Toxic Prisons – Block the Pipeline’ encourages the wider public to express their protest to the offices of Hon Annastacia Palaszczuk, Hon Leanne Linnard Minister for Children and Youth Justice, Member for Cook Ms Cynthia Lui and Treasurer Hon Cameron Dick Treasurer.
In response to the Labor Government’s proposal to build a new youth prison in Cairns, the ‘End Toxic Prisons – Block the Pipeline’ campaign calls to end the incarceration of First Nations girls, boys and other criminalised young people.
On the 5th of October 2022, Premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk made a comment published by the ABC Far North, that Queensland’s Labor government are considering expanding youth detention and developing a youth prison in Cairns.
The ‘End Toxic Prisons – Block the Pipeline’ campaign calls for an immediate end to youth incarceration and calls upon the government to invest in community-controlled solutions to end the criminalisation of marginalised people. We demand the government prioritise, the
development of local community care to address the underlying social issues that youth in Far North Queensland are subjected to.
‘End Toxic Prisons – Block the Pipeline’ believes that the youth who will be targeted and disproportionately affected by the development of this state sponsored carceral project will predominantly be First Nations girls and boys. These new developments will enable the carceral machine to more effectively coax young First Nations people into the criminal legal system. Our campaign seeks to end the gendered racialized violence against First Nations people and abolish the age of criminal responsibility – in order to prevent First Nations people being killed in custody.
This campaign is founded upon an abolitionist framework identifying a multitude of factors that contribute to the mass incarceration of First Nations people, and is driven towards the goal of ending carceral violence against First Nations people and communities.
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Sisters Inside is a dynamic organisation that supports criminalised women and girls, and their children, both inside and outside prison. We have achieved remarkable success in assisting women and their children to develop a safe, secure, violence-free life, and stay out of prison.
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