ISSUE NO. 13
August 2025
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Letters

Advice for When You’re Released

By
Danielle

Danielle writes from a prison in Queensland.

Willy Pleasance

Hello,

Here is some feedback for About Time – it’s absolutely positive! From my first introduction to issue 2 or 3 (at BNCC) I looked forward to the next edition. Arriving at NCC I followed up with an officer who ensured copies were available to us.

The information is useful and informative. A quick ask around has resulted in the following additions being suggested.

  • More feedback (if possible) on supports and ideas for people being released, particularly women.
  • Would anyone be interested in sharing their experiences of that process? Things to watch out for when our time is complete and we face the outside world again. Interviews with such people perhaps?
  • Opportunities to link with pen pals? Perhaps a request email/contact so people can link up.
  • Monthly astrology
  • Sudoku
  • Information and feedback more focussed on women over 50, who have different needs at times with health and medical issues.

We look forward to future issues.

Sincerely,

Danielle

Hello,

Here is some feedback for About Time – it’s absolutely positive! From my first introduction to issue 2 or 3 (at BNCC) I looked forward to the next edition. Arriving at NCC I followed up with an officer who ensured copies were available to us.

The information is useful and informative. A quick ask around has resulted in the following additions being suggested.

  • More feedback (if possible) on supports and ideas for people being released, particularly women.
  • Would anyone be interested in sharing their experiences of that process? Things to watch out for when our time is complete and we face the outside world again. Interviews with such people perhaps?
  • Opportunities to link with pen pals? Perhaps a request email/contact so people can link up.
  • Monthly astrology
  • Sudoku
  • Information and feedback more focussed on women over 50, who have different needs at times with health and medical issues.

We look forward to future issues.

Sincerely,

Danielle

Lessons from Bees

By Muhamed

Prison teaches people to hold back. To keep to themselves. To give as little as possible. To protect what little energy or hope they have left. When everything feels limited – time, freedom, trust – it makes sense to think that giving more will leave you with less. But the bee lives by a different rule.

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We are not sure who to write to or who we can talk to about theses matters. We are hoping someone reads our letter and can point us in the right direction to have our voices heard.

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Rights for Foreign Prisoners

By Luiing

If foreign prisoners have been sentenced under same law as Australians, then it’s extremely important that they have right to be treat equally in their imprisonment – on humanitarian grounds.

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Not Cool: Heat and Overcrowding in TMCC

By Dane

The following is in response to the article by Denham Sadler titled “Sweltering Behind Bars: Stifling Heat in Australian prisons”.

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