women in prison

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.

Debbie Kilroy OAM is the CEO of Sisters Insids. She’s just been cleared of COVID-19, after spending 25 days in self-isolation with the virus.

Debbie Kilroy OAM is the CEO of Sisters Inside and one of Australia’s leading advocates for criminalised women and children. 

While men make up the majority of the Australian prison population, the number of women entering the prison system is increasing at a much faster rate.