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In October last year, thousands of New South Wales prison officers also went on strike, plunging incarcerated people into abrupt and extended lockdowns.
Throughout my prison sentence, the only consistent thing has been my training – the rest has been a rollercoaster.
So I guess my message is to those getting out soon. Remember the people that offer you drugs when you get out, they are not your friends. You are better than that.
I hate making pizza bases from scratch – it’s hard, messy and bread just works really well.
I hope this gets sorted as I’m currently eligible for parole in 2027 and fear I won’t get the help or programmes in time.
Buddhism teaches that pain is a part of being human, not a failure. Thoughts are not who you are, change is always possible because nothing is permanent. There is beauty in the idea that peace isn’t something you chase, it’s something you uncover when you stop clinging.
I just want to get back to my home state WA so I can do my time with my family support where I’m happy and have all my supports.
Here at MCC we are limited to weight bags and medicine balls. We cannot purchase creatine or protein powders, training gloves or any other essential items that other prisoners at other centres can purchase.
I have been in the system a long time. I believe that we as prisoners should be heard a lot more.
Including a death in custody at Acacia prison in WA, Victoria spending the most on youth detention, remand numbers skyrocketing in NSW and more.
Project: herself is an organisation I set up to advocate and support women to have self-determined lives. We do that through a couple of things – including storytelling advocacy and frontline service delivery.
In July 2025, four organisations came together to make sure the truth about prisons, policing and criminalisation in Australia was heard on the world stage.
Australia is in the midst of an epidemic of prison lockdowns. With the number of people in prison on the rise around the country and staff numbers failing to keep up, lockdowns are increasing in prevalence and severity, and have now become a regular part of prison life.
The true cost of phone calls in prison has been revealed for the first time.
More than eight years since Ravenhall prison opened, recidivism rates at the prison are higher than those at public prisons.
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Spit hoods have been found to be ineffective and potentially deadly. But they’re still used in prisons around the country.
My loved ones go about their lives, their stories unfolding; while mine is caught in an endless, irrelevant loop. I’m a ghost, haunting their lives as they deal with issues and overcome hardships, with no ability to help them.
I don’t want to be on Centrelink – I want to work. I will cook, clean, waitress, pick up rubbish – anything. But I cannot because of a Police Check and Working with Children’s Check.
The handling of Aboriginal art and the ignorance around cultural significance by prisons in Victoria is appalling. This was my experience. It happened to me more than once, and no one was ever held accountable.
Walking out of prison without keeping up with digital advancements is like emerging from a cave clutching a Nintendo 64 while everyone else is coding in quantum and you’re still trying to pay with Monopoly money in a now cashless society.
What you need to survive in prison is different to what you need on the outside. Many people have said that the first few weeks out were harder than their time inside. Coping with money problems, dealing with other people and feeling like you don’t belong in society can take a toll.
Loneliness is a pervasive, all-encompassing state comprised of many unpleasant and distressing feelings. It is distinct from being alone, or from being socially isolated.
A heart attack occurs when there is blockage in the heart’s own blood supply.
Generally, debts can be put into two categories. First, there are private debts (e.g. from a bank, a landlord, a car dealer, or ‘Afterpay’). Second, there are debts owed to the State (e.g. unpaid fines).
The concern for those who are subjected to government decisions is that they often do not get to see the integrity of the information which was considered by the decision-maker and don’t get to check if it’s correct.
Join the dozens of law firms and other organisations advertising in Australia’s monthly prison newspaper.
Being in a space that does not acknowledge, respond to or understand you can be deeply challenging.
I’m sick of doing crime, I’m sick of doing jail. It’s time to put pen to paper, and send this in the mail.
Every Saturday morning in four prisons around the country, a 5km fun run takes place.
Franz Kafka, the famous Czech writer, never married but was engaged numerous times. He would write to his first fiancee, Felice, 2, 3 or 4 letters daily when he was working in Prague and she was living in Berlin. By Kafka’s own reckoning, he wrote to her perhaps 500 letters.
Tired from being told what to do. I am tired of love, tired of being deemed guilty, tired of my own remorse. I am tired of my own self-doubt, my own shadows and especially tired of my own face.
Being in prison is lonely at night. It’s waiting for letters that friends and family forget to write. It’s sitting around with nothing to do just figuring out who is who.
Prison is not fun, prison is not jolly, there’s rarely any smiles and for the tears, bring your brolly. Prison is dirty and prison is hard, lose focus for a minute and get done in the yard.
My blue eyes look so drained, but I’m strong, I’ll make it through.
Hate’s a strong word, but for you it’s reserved. I hate what you’ve taken from me, my parents, my childhood and my glee.
A sweet treat using buy-up staples.
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