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Drawing a line in the sand, and speaking up for abolition of the prison industrial complex
Editor: Melissa Sweet - Croakey Health Media, Author: Debbie Kilroy and Tabitha Lean Introduction by Croakey: The National Network of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women & Girls was established in 2020 to represent people who have been in prisons and...
National Networks response to Justice Reform Initiative
We are skidding towards the end of 2023 and white women continue to weaponised their tears and fears against Black women. Last week the National Network released a statement critiquing the work of Justice Reform Initiative (JRI). We critiqued a report that...
It’s time to step off the treadmill of reform. Jailing is not failing
Off the back of the highly successful Sisters Inside Abolition Now conference, the National Network of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls (National Network) would like to respond to the recent media release by the Justice Reform Initiative calling...
Sisters Inside: helping incarcerated women cope in prison and out
Debbie Kilroy outlines what sparked her to found Sisters Inside, an organisation that assists incarcerated women - and those who have been released - to better cope and move forward in life. Then in 1989, I was sentenced to 6 years for drug trafficking. It was while...
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...

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