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Joint Submission from Sisters Inside and the Institute for Collaborative Race Research on Discussion Paper 2 of the Women’s Safety and Justice Taskforce: Women and girls’ experience of the criminal justice system – Proposed focus areas How can you help? The...
The State as Abuser: Coercive Control in the Colony
Joint Submission from Sisters Inside and the Institute for Collaborative Race Research on Discussion Paper 1 of the Women's Safety and Justice Taskforce. (click on image to read full submission) How can you help? The Sisters Inside Fund for Children supports...
A World Without Prisons – Living Black
Karla Grant speaks with Justice Reformer Debbie Kilroy about how she's standing up for women behind bars, paying unpaid fines for prisoners, and why she thinks a world without prisons is possible. How can you help? The Sisters Inside Fund for Children supports...
‘In no uncertain terms’ the violence of criminalising coercive control. Joint statement: Sisters Inside &Institute for Collaborative Race Research
Background In March 2021, the Queensland Government announced the establishment of the Women’s Safety and Justice Taskforce. They claimed it would be tasked with conducting “a wide-ranging review into the experience of women across the criminal justice system”i....
National Network – Media Release
Thirty years ago the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in custody delivered its 339 recommendations, and three decades later the system they call justice is still killing Aboriginal people. The National Network of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women...
Peace and Justice: Debbie Kilroy OAM
After her release from prison in 1992, Debbie Kilroy OAM established Sisters Inside to fight for the human rights of incarcerated women and girls to address gaps in services available to them and their children. Since then, Debbie has completed four tertiary degrees –...
Podcast Episode: In the spirit of spinning yarns – The fearless Debbie Kilroy OAM – Founder & CEO of Sisters Inside
Akashika Mohla has a yarn with Debbie Kilroy OAM, CEO & Founder of Internationally acclaimed Sisters Inside Inc . Debbie's journey from another side of law & order to a Criminal lawyer & prisoner advocate to now a Barrister in progress, with a huge mission...
Sisters Inside: How Debbie Kilroy Went From Prisoner To Protector of Women’s Rights
When Debbie Kilroy, CEO of Sisters Inside, was first incarcerated, she had not been convicted of any crime and was told it was “for her own good”. Australian female prisoners increased by 47 per cent between 2009 and 2019, and are often victims of crime themselves,...
Debbie Kilroy – QUT 2020 Special Excellence Award
She is one of Australia’s leading advocates for protecting the human rights of women and children through decarceration – the process of moving away from using prisons in response to crime and social issues. Ms Kilroy holds a Bachelor of Laws (2007) and a Master of...
Abolition & Liberation – Angela Davis and Jamal Juma
An international discussion of the connections between Black Lives Matter calls to defund the police and abolish the prison industrial complex, and Palestinian calls to tear down all apartheid walls and free Palestine. These speakers bring years of on-the-ground...
How can you help?
The Sisters Inside Fund for Children supports children of women in the criminal justice system to choose their own future free of the burdens so commonly felt while their mother is in prison.
#Free Her Campaign
This campaign has been set up by Debbie Kilroy, CEO of Sisters Inside Inc. The funds raised will be used to release people from prison and pay warrants so they are not imprisoned.