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Human rights lawyer slams national jail policies as “tools of white supremacy”
Lawyer and CEO of Sisters Inside Debbie Kilroy is calling on community legal services across the country to work together to abolish the national prison system. Ms Kilroy said the national policy agenda to lock up more First Nations’ children was a targeted “tool of...
New youth justice laws to create “violent men like we’ve never seen before”
Human rights campaigner and prison abolitionist Debbie Kilroy has slammed the Palaszczuk Government’s youth justice overhaul, warning the violent impact of the new laws will be felt for generations. Ms Kilroy, who also heads up Sisters Inside, said the raft of changes...
Sisters Inside warns Black lives will be lost with Queensland’s US style policing
Prison abolition campaigners Sisters Inside have warned Queensland’s new youth justice laws will open the door to United States style policing that has led to thousands of Black deaths at the hands of police in the past decade. Ahead of next week’s debate on youth...
Neta-Rie Mabo and Ruby Wharton talk Social Justice and the End Toxic Prisons Campaign with Kevin Yow Yeh on Let’s Talk…
Neta-Rie Mabo and Ruby Wharton talk with Kevin Yow Yeh about misleading 'youth crime' statistics, the Palaszczuk Government's draconian laws aimed at locking children up, and what actually works to keep children and their communities safe and cared for. They also chat...
This International Women’s Day, Sisters Inside spoke with freedom fighter and voice of change Ruby Wharton
What moment did you know the work you do was what you needed to do for other women and girls? Sexist and racially charged criminalisation driven by police and prisons has been an ongoing tactic of colonisation in this country since 1788. I've known the danger of...
Queensland Government will face prosecution for human rights abuses
Human rights campaigner Debbie Kilroy has warned the Palaszczuk Government that community will hold it to account for its escalating abuse of children through its youth justice overhaul. Ms Kilroy, who heads up the justice advocacy and prison abolition organisation...
Human rights group demands Queensland Government fund youth justice programs that work
Lawyer and Sisters Inside CEO Debbie Kilroy has called on the Palaszczuk Government to fully fund Sisters Inside programs that support every girl who is charged with an offence. Ms Kilroy said community had witnessed successive governments enforcing the same youth...
Children at risk “now more than ever” of being targeted and locked up by police
International human rights organisation Sisters Inside will stand with First Nations’ leaders in Gimuy (Cairns) this week to demand the Government stop destroying vulnerable children’s lives. Sisters Inside CEO Debbie Kilroy OAM said the Government’s youth crime...
Queensland Government bail breach backflip politicking at its most deadly
Justice advocacy organisation Sisters Inside is urging the Palaszczuk Government to redirect its $42 million policing hotspot funding to existing successful community youth justice programs in the wake of its devastating bail breach backflip yesterday. Sisters Inside...
National Human Rights organisation says Queensland’s youth crime policy will fail everyone
Sisters Inside CEO Debbie Kilroy is urging the State Government to back away from its ‘tough on youth crime’ policy agenda before it is too late. With the Queensland Palaszczuk government expected to attempt to legislate its youth crime 10 point plan this week, Ms...
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