women in prison

Safety in women’s prisons cannot exist in a system designed to conceal its own violence, writes Tabitha Lean and Debbie Kilroy.

Women in prison are being used as weapons in a broader campaign of transphobia. It is grotesque political theatre.

From Now offers a real alternative to prison. It is our responsibility as a community to disrupt this cycle and support those most in need.

The #FreeHer podcast shares powerful stories from incarcerated women, showing prisons cause harm and resistance, not safety.

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.

Despite being one of the most at-risk groups in the country, formerly incarcerated women are absent from the conversation on homelessness.

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

In interviews, “cycles of harm” emerged as the reason women eeventually ended up in prison, new research has found.

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

Footage has emerged from Syria, purportedly showing rebel fighters freeing many women from their prison cells.

The Italian government has removed legislation that has protected pregnant women and women with babies under 12 months old from going to prison.

Low level female offenders are ending up with higher thresholds for bail and are being incarcerated in escalating numbers.