ISSUE NO. 9
April 2025
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Letters

Someone To Talk To

By
Kyle

Kyle writes from Marngoneet Correctional Centre in Victoria.

Willy Pleasance

To Denham Sadler,

I liked what you wrote in the December edition.

Just a few things that we learned – male prisoners mostly have someone to write to or call. I’m supposing female prisoners have the same. But a person like me, I have a very hard time talking to someone, whether male or female, other than Mum and Dad and a mate that are all on the outside. They are fine to talk to but it would be nice to communicate with other lonely people locked up.

I’d think there are a lot of inmates looking for someone to talk to, for some people it might help with the healing process.

A well monitored program might be an idea but it would have to work Main to Main, Protection to Protection.

From Kyle

To Denham Sadler,

I liked what you wrote in the December edition.

Just a few things that we learned – male prisoners mostly have someone to write to or call. I’m supposing female prisoners have the same. But a person like me, I have a very hard time talking to someone, whether male or female, other than Mum and Dad and a mate that are all on the outside. They are fine to talk to but it would be nice to communicate with other lonely people locked up.

I’d think there are a lot of inmates looking for someone to talk to, for some people it might help with the healing process.

A well monitored program might be an idea but it would have to work Main to Main, Protection to Protection.

From Kyle

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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By Prisoners at Albany Prison, WA

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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