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QHRC review into strip search in women’s prison
Human rights advocate Debbie Kilroy calls for the abolition of all strip searching of incarcerated women This morning, the QRHC released its report on their review into strip searching practices across women’s prisons in Queensland. While Sisters Inside CEO and human...
URGENT CONDEMNATION: QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT’S SUSPENSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS ACT TO TURN WATCH HOUSES INTO PRISONS
The National Network of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls stands in condemnation and rage as the Queensland Government suspends the Human Rights Act to use police watch houses as youth cages. While the government alleges this latest move is part...
CALL TO ACTION: Social Workers, Social Work students, Academics and Service Users
The Australian Association of Social Worker’s recently proposed to remove clause 8(d) in the AASW constitution that prevents persons who are convicted of an offence punishable by imprisonment for a period greater than 12 months from becoming or remaining a Member of...
Why the Melbourne “Nazi” rally is just the tip of the iceberg
There’s one major problem with thinking those who attended the anti-trans protest on Saturday in Melbourne are the only ones practicing white supremacy in this country, it isn’t true. We live in a community that is built on policies of white supremacy. Our policing...
Human rights lawyer slams Tasmanian jail policies as “tools of white supremacy”
Lawyer and CEO of National justice organisation Sisters Inside is calling on community legal services across Tasmania to work together to abolish the prison system. “Prisons are not rehabilitative places they are tools of white supremacy and they need to be...
Human rights lawyer slams national jail policies as “tools of white supremacy”
Lawyer and CEO of Sisters Inside Debbie Kilroy is calling on community legal services across the country to work together to abolish the national prison system. Ms Kilroy said the national policy agenda to lock up more First Nations’ children was a targeted “tool of...
New youth justice laws to create “violent men like we’ve never seen before”
Human rights campaigner and prison abolitionist Debbie Kilroy has slammed the Palaszczuk Government’s youth justice overhaul, warning the violent impact of the new laws will be felt for generations. Ms Kilroy, who also heads up Sisters Inside, said the raft of changes...
Sisters Inside warns Black lives will be lost with Queensland’s US style policing
Prison abolition campaigners Sisters Inside have warned Queensland’s new youth justice laws will open the door to United States style policing that has led to thousands of Black deaths at the hands of police in the past decade. Ahead of next week’s debate on youth...
Neta-Rie Mabo and Ruby Wharton talk Social Justice and the End Toxic Prisons Campaign with Kevin Yow Yeh on Let’s Talk…
Neta-Rie Mabo and Ruby Wharton talk with Kevin Yow Yeh about misleading 'youth crime' statistics, the Palaszczuk Government's draconian laws aimed at locking children up, and what actually works to keep children and their communities safe and cared for. They also chat...
This International Women’s Day, Sisters Inside spoke with freedom fighter and voice of change Ruby Wharton
What moment did you know the work you do was what you needed to do for other women and girls? Sexist and racially charged criminalisation driven by police and prisons has been an ongoing tactic of colonisation in this country since 1788. I've known the danger of...
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