Debbie Kilroy & Tabitha Lean

For criminalised women and girls, the silence in this report speaks louder than the statistics. As some of the most marginalised women in this country, we are missing.

The Erin Patterson case has taught us something unsettling: even in the face of so-called justice, misogyny always finds a way to surface.

For women in Alice Springs, particularly Aboriginal women, the violence in prison is sharpened, specific, and mostly invisible.

If we are serious about ending violence against women, we must demand an end to the prison system that disappears and brutalises them.

On International Women’s day, calls to end violence against women in prison are noticeable absent, writes Tabitha Lean and Debbie Kilroy.

An article published by the Daily Mail refused to see two women as victims of horrendous acts of violence. Instead, it centred their criminal histories.