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I am so proud that I get to welcome our NT people in prison to your very first issue of About Time! This is your newspaper, so please write in and send pictures, stories, poems and whatever else fits.
If you feel like you’ve lost everything and have nothing to look forward to, it is very important that you don’t lose hope for your life.
I’ve now been in for over a year – it’s my first (and last) time in. I still haven’t been sentenced but my lawyer has told me I’ll be doing a “substantial” sentence.
Why would anybody want to come back to the system and add to that statistic?
We have an active veterans’ affairs type meeting here every month and an outside group called “Buddy Up” that sends two of their volunteers in.
I’m only 23 years old but I feel like I’m 43. Being in prison definitely preserves your body but makes your mind and soul feel so much older if you know what I mean.
I’ve been in prison for 14 years now, and lockdowns have always been a feature of prison life, but I have also noticed that over the years they have gotten worse and worse.
Has anybody purchased a watch recently or in the past and wondered what happens when the battery dies?
My name is Greg, I am 60 years old and I have spent almost 48 years in various institutions and prisons.
We will all have our freedom one day, so until then keep your head up, you got this and take it one day at a time.
My name is Maude. I am a young Jabbir Jabbir woman – I was born in Broome, Western Australia.
In nearly every Australian state and territory, there are thousands of people facing prison time due to unpaid fines.
On an average night, there are about 900 children in youth detention around the country.
In prison, time is both punishment and currency. It is counted in courtrooms, crossed off calendars and measured against the possibility of release.
Welcome to Coronial Corner, where we chat the coroners’ courts and what they say about preventable deaths in custody and the broader system.
Including a Corrections Minister stepping down in WA, inmates helping raise orphaned lambs in NSW, mandatory sentencing for gun theft in TAS and more.
Inside prison, days can feel endless and sometimes the only thing that keeps you going is the thought you might get to hear the voice of someone you love.
Being kind is something I find really challenging at times.
It’s 7:45 AM. That annoying intercom announces 10 minutes to unlock count.
Place Scotch Fingers into a large container and use a peanut butter jar (lid part) to crush the biscuits. Add plum jam for a richer flavour.
There comes a moment in every person’s life when they are forced to face themselves. Not the version they show to others, but the deeper, more honest truth underneath.
Complete the entire circuit above, then repeat it a second time to hit the full rep count. Good luck!
This is a very special Ask Stacey, as I finished parole! And the questions came from all sorts of different people in the justice system.
For any person in prison and coming up for release within the next year, have you ever thought about what your transitional worker should be doing?
On 1 April 2026, the Australian Parliament passed new laws which will change the way Commonwealth parole works.
Long wait times to access rehabilitation and wellness programs and a lack of even basic pre-release support is contributing to high recidivism rates in Queensland, the state’s Auditor-General has found.
A successful Australia-first drug and alcohol rehabilitation program in a WA prison will soon shut down due to overcrowding.
The state government introduced legislation to Parliament last week that allows for people in prison’s legal right of one hour in the open air every day to be limited due to a range of reasons.
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NAAJA has a 50-year history of serving Aboriginal Territorians as they navigate the justice system.
If you drive from Melbourne to Sydney, you will travel through 10 different First Nations language groups. And there’s the same number between Melbourne and Adelaide.
Often I try to self-reflect which turns into waves of rings around me. This picture reflects my days in general; life is static, surrounded by waves around.
The cage stands bold, with its steel-clad mesh. For within its grip, it’s us it holds. Ten foot walls, of cold creme concrete. For outside we muster, like horses in stalls.
I know you think you’re broken far too much to ever heal properly, like all those other folk that make life seem so real.
“The colours of the rainbow so pretty in the sky." The colours of my jocks lying, on a bench. Uncovered by shutters. Unarmed waiting snakes.
You begin to scream and shout. Roll about time to let it all out. Emotions running wild from the hurt and pain. It’s starting to hurt my brain.
Do you feel confined, please sympathise my pain. The lack of understanding, I find it very vain. Just imagine freedom, independence stripped from you, how would you feel and what would you do.
Another day another cell, can’t believe I’m locked in a cell. Imagine this is what it’s like living in hell, lawyers to pay but no money and nothing to sell!
Can you find all the words from the clues?
Three brain teasers from Gadjet.
Our monthly meme from Meicho.
If you have some better jokes please send them to us!
Fill the grid so every row, column and box contains the numbers 1-9 once.
Test your general knowledge on our monthly quiz!