Jamie McConnachie

Mar 1, 2023 | overland.org.au | Monique Hurley |Jamie McConnachie |Jasmine Barzani |Damiya Hayden

Australia is in the midst of a mass imprisonment crisis, in which governments permit human rights abuses to thrive in the darkness behind prison walls. People continue to be pipelined into prisons at alarming rates when the evidence is clear—prisons reproduce structural inequality and undermine community safety. Unfair laws funnel staggering numbers of unsentenced people into prisons and allow for children as young as ten to be caged in prison cells.