We were honoured to have a visit from Lorraine Pryor from Voice for Hope and Elders from WA, here with our CEO Debbie Kilroy and crew at Sisters HQ. This is how we #freeher
Our CEO, Debbie Kilroy - Queensland LNP’s ‘fresh start’ for youth detention is just a cruel repackaging of failed punitive policies.
'Beneath all of the fancy footwork and buzzwords, it’s just another punitive approach that punishes children for the failures of the state.'
Debbie Kilroy OAM was first criminalised at the age of 13 and spent more than two decades in and out of women's and children's prisons. Driven to end the criminalisation and imprisonment of girls and women, Debbie established Sisters Inside, as well as her law firm, Kilroy & Callaghan Lawyers.
Chief Executive Officer at Sisters Inside.
Principal of Kilroy & Callaghan Lawyers
Formerly Incarcerated
Queensland LNP’s ‘fresh start’ for youth detention is just a cruel repackaging of failed punitive policies.
'Beneath all of the fancy footwork and buzzwords, it’s just another punitive approach that punishes children for the failures of the state.'
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Over the last two days, Sisters Inside has been in Townsville Women’s Prison, facilitating training sessions for approximately 50 incarcerated women. We run many workshops for our sisters inside. Workshops for women to use to be able to advocate & agitate for themselves and others.
The women have loved the training and will assist other women with their new learnt skills to #freeher
This is abolition in practice. We as formerly incarcerated women will always work together with incarcerated women and girls to end our incarceration. We will always be held accountable by those women languishing in cages.
Others who are in our lane collecting a pay check need to get out of our lane.
#endtheincarcerationofwomenandgirls#sistersinside#abolitioninpractice