I am thankful for any and all social and creative outlets such as yourselves involved in the creation and distribution of your newspaper. They provide a link or window to another place, an opening for personal expression and a greater sense of community for those who choose to make use of the opportunities. Writing a book review for a peer newsletter that might only be read by a hundred or so inmates at one prison may not change the world, but having someone stop you in the yard to tell you that they were impressed with your writing is valuable and reinvigorating.

To About Time,

Thank you for your newspaper. I look forward to reading it each month. Its great! I enjoyed it from the first time I read it last year. Its made me feel connected, seen & heard. When I first went to jail I felt really alone and your newspaper helped me so much. Someone – well lots of someones – got how I felt. They understood. Thank you for that. I've written this poem while incarcerated. I really hope you will publish it for me.

Keep up the hard work – we need you guys.

Wow, I won the caption comp for December... I've never won anything and the whole jail is congratulating me. Our jail was never told about your newspaper – but in November 2024 it just showed up and all 120 girls love it. So please, please keep it up. ... Thank you for the write up on pen pal programs – I've been in jail for four and a half years and always watch a show called Love After Lockup based on the USA pen pal project ... Anyway guys, thank you for your newspaper. We eagerly await it every month here.

Congratulations on the launch of About Time. I can only imagine how many obstacles you have navigated to successfully sail the product into Australia's prisons, and from where I sit it was very warmly received by the inmates, security and medical staff that I share time with. Well done, and thank you for delivering us something we didn't know we needed until we received it.

I can't tell you how glad I was to see this paper come into my unit, a sign that times can and always will change the way we live, especially in prison.

Have been loving getting About Time in the mail each month, thanks for the fantastic work you do for our incarcerated community!

Fantastic work.

Keep up the amazing work Rosie and crew.

I'm a big fan of your magazine/newspaper and I look forward to it each month. I enjoy reading things written by other inmates like myself across the country.

Thank you for your continued hard work to put together such an amazing magazine for all inmates, and may Peace, love and happiness touch everyone.

Thanks for reading.

The few that have gotten a copy are really pleased with it (including myself) though and look forward to seeing more issues from you in the future. As well as sending you some contributions. Keep up the great work, thank you and we will keep you updated on any progress with its distribution.

Once again, I offer congratulations for your May edition. Many of the artists here look forward to inspiration from the well presented artworks. Thanks again for your continued valuable publishing prints. Keep up the good work.

When I get out, I am going to use my skills as a songwriter/performer to start a business and entertain people. I will look forward to seeing future issues and reading about people's journeys through their hardship.

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I will continue to read About Time and contribute, as I thoroughly enjoy reading people's stories and writing to others.

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Thank you for reading and never stop smiling.

I have to say I am really digging the paper, it's a great read.

Congratulations - I just heard about the newspaper via the 7am podcast.  Fantastic.  I used to work at Fremantle Prison a long time ago and we were always trying to find good ways  to improve the lives of the prisoners.  A newspaper would  have been great.  I hope that prisoners in WA can access the newspaper...I'm not sure they can.

I like your paper. I look forward to it when it comes. They deliver it under my door. It's interesting to read what others have to say, and their experiences. I like the paintings some of the other prisoners do. They have a gift. It's sad how some people waste a talent like that by doing silly shit and wasting their life behind bars.

Big shout out from the Tassie crew thank you for getting the paper going, can only imagine the brick walls and troubles you had to go through. Love the content you guys have, a variety and relevant information.

This is so awesome. Such important work. I must look into how you got approval for this as the state is so punitive and resistant to prisoners needs. Anyway, awesome work!

Great work with the paper keep it up… Since reading your paper I realise other prisons go through the same issue. It's not fair or humane.

I'm always reading your paper.

I wrote to you a couple of months ago and you published my article in your newspaper. Thank you, as some other inmates here were touched by it because I got the officers to photocopy it on four papers and I stuck one on each noticeboard in the  units and one on each window and everybody read it. Some prisoners praised me and said “good on ya”. I’d like you to consider publishing a new thing I wrote about recidivism.

Thank you, keep up good work.

Hey mate, I received your letter the other day & I appreciate your reply on my story "Time Stands Still For No Man." Today we all got a copy of Issue 17 of About Time & to see that you put my story on the 2nd page made me smile. All the lads were quick to yell out & say "Is that you Leb." I was like yes boys, they were all moved by my story so I guess it done the job it was meant to do.

A big shout out to you guys for printing such a great newspaper. Personally I love and look forward to every issue.

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Please keep up the great newspaper. I can tell you it's a light in our otherwise dark prison lives – especially those of us without much support and interaction from the outside.

Keep up this amazing paper, It’s a tremendous help to many. I think it’s amazing. Everyone should be issued one upon induction.

Dear About Time,

My name is Matty & I am currently in a QLD jail, hoping you could put my poem in your paper. I know alot of inmates will like it.

Thank you.

Greetings to you all! My name is Johnny and I am currently locked up in NSW. Reading all the letters sent by everyone over the past four issues of 'About Time' has been such an eye-opener for me. I've found myself looking forward to the next issue to see and learn from other peoples' experiences that they so bravely share with us! Reading everyone's personal experiences and advice has affected me in such a positive way that I finally decided to put pen to paper and share some of my own experiences over the past three years and the changes I have made that may change your life, as they did mine.

Thank you Denham for writing back to me about the lockdowns happening here at DPFC. And I especially say thanks for your guidance in writing the article. Thank you again for all your help with this.

G'day About Timers,

Got a kick out of seeing my last entry in the paper!

Since the very first edition was released in July 2024, About Time has been faithfully producing monthly editions. I know firsthand how widely it circulates: across prisons throughout the country, whether in printed form or through the iPads available to inmates. The response among prisoners, including myself, has been overwhelmingly positive. What makes About Time unique is that its content speaks directly to the lived experience of those of us on the inside. It offers practical information, but it is also deeply creative and artistic. The poems, stories, and artwork published give prisoners something that prison usually strips away-our voice. Here, identity is often reduced to our MIN number, our sense of personhood is eroded day by day. Yet when an inmate's words or artwork appear in About Time, that person is recognised again as fully human, capable of thought, creativity, and contribution. Equally important is the rehabilitative effect. Too often, boredom and frustration inside prison breed conflict, misconduct, and despair. About Time offers a powerful alternative: it channels energy into productive and meaningful work. Instead of wasting away or finding trouble, inmates can discover new skills, pursue creativity, and experience the pride of positive achievement. This not only improves mental health and prison culture in the short term, but also strengthens the likelihood of successful reintegration and reduces the risk of reoffending once inmates are released. Because of About Time, inmates are enabled to see the possibility of real change. There is no other service in Australia that reaches us in this way.

Thanks Edith. I like to receive the paper – it's good to hear from people with lived experience for my role.

About Time has given me the opportunity to express myself in writing. This helps with my rehabilitation. Thank you for this opportunity.

Thank you About Time – the printed voice of the prisons.

There are some fantastic poems in issue six that have inspired me to knock one up to send off next month. Keep up the good work!

Good work – very needed.

I have been eagerly awaiting the June edition. Thank you kindly for reading my letter, and I hope you have a wonderful week ahead.