There's an 11year old girl sitting in adult cells in Perth lockup because she got caught shoplifting a drink and a pastry from Coles.worth less than $10

14,000 Palestinian babies may die in the next 48 hours. The UN has reported that lorries carrying baby food and nutritional supplies are at the Gaza border, but Israel is not allowing them to enter. How is it possible that no one has taken effective action to stop this?

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

At least 590 First Nations people have died in custody since the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in Custody. No one has ever been found criminally responsible for any of their deaths. No one should die in prison. nit.com.au/15-04-2025/1...

Can confirm. USAID's DARTs are being fully dismantled. These are the legendary teams that fight famine, beat Ebola, rescue people after earthquakes. They represent the very best of America in the world. Elon Musk was once a builder. Now he just destroys. This shameful nihilism will kill people.

The current persecution of trans people in US prisons is horrific. Osita is right - it's a historic roll back of rights. And we can see politicians in Australia moving the same way. We have to stand against any attempted persecution of our trans community.

Thank you, @zoedaniel.bsky.social. We must fight this wave of antisemitism, but mandating that we throw people in prison with no thought for how we can best ensure they don't offend again doesn't create the stronger community we want. Never has, never will.

Well, the first sitting day of the year at #springst has made clear what we all expected: the Opposition wants to fight this election on 'crime', and Labor wants to let them win it.

BREAKING: We've just been told that the government's subsidy for phone calls from prison will come into effect from TOMORROW - 1 Feb 2025. This is a huge win for our campaign and will change our participants' and their families' lives. But it's not over yet.

It's the greatest honour to work on this campaign with colleagues and participants (and their families) @vacro.bsky.social, as well as our sector partners. From tomorrow, the cost of calling a mobile from prison in Victoria will be cut by more than half!

This is is a great result for people in prison and their loved ones in the community. Phone calls from prison will be more than 50% cheaper from tomorrow!

There is zero evidence writers festivals or arts events are linked to these attacks (obviously they are not?). For the SMH to just broadcast this specific, baseless allegation without even saying “by the way, police have no evidence to support these incendiary claims” is extremely poor.

A great U.S. view on an issue that's a huge problem here too - remand (imprisoning people who haven't been convicted of a crime). "The purpose of pretrial detention...is to punish. The harm that I witnessed is not just some unfortunate by-product of our pretrial system. The harm is the point."

"Prisons don’t create safer communities, so why is Australia spending billions on building them?" Institute Associate @blatmannaama.bsky.social co-authors a new article for The Conversation: bit.ly/PrisonsAustr...

It was great to feel the solidarity of so many First Nations people and their allies at the Invasion Day rally in Naarm today. We must continue to fight for a just future for our First Nations people, often in the face of fierce opposition.

This is one of the many horrifying things happening in the US right now. It will have devastating effects for trans people who already face persecution, dehumanisation and discrimination in prison.

This piece by @emmakrussell.bsky.social and co. is so important. We know law and order policies fail, and we know what works: comprehensive reintegration services for those leaving prison; and investments in strong communities, which prevent people from going to prison in the first place.

Well said by Max Kaiser.

This continued anti semitism is horrifying.

a functioning opposition party that represented the working class could spike this photo in the end zone basically forever

The findings echo much of what our Lived Experience Panel members reported in their submission to the Inquiry into Women's Pain last year (www.vacro.org.au/Handlers/Dow...).

In this study of reproductive healthcare in a San Diego jail, women report: 🩺 failure to respond to multiple medical requests 🩺 inexperienced medical staff 🩺 dismissiveness, mistreatment, and punishment from staff 🩺 uncomfortable, unsafe practices www.urban.org/research/pub...

With Corrections Victoria recently announcing $8k sign-on bonuses for new prison officers (www.3aw.com.au/the-big-ince...) we want to strongly echo this sentiment: from Texas to Victoria, prisons cannot recruit and retain their way out of this staffing crisis! The only solution is to decarcerate! 🧵⬇️

Why did sheriffs become such huge players in detaining immigrants if the feds are the ones arresting people? Who is making money off of this? What options do local governments have to resist detention efforts? You asked, Bolts answers: boltsmag.org/the-pas...

Will he be brave and continue this? www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

The annual ABS prisoner stats paint a bleak nationwide picture. Victoria was the only state to experience a decrease in prisoner numbers (8%): First Nations prisoner numbers in Vic fell 10%, but First Nations people remain shamefully overincarcerated. www.abs.gov.au/media-centre...

Sorry, what now, Victoria?

i think it is important to clarify that this — the exclusionary distribution of benefits on some sort of ethnic or national basis — isn’t socialism. it’s, you know, something else.

This has the same vibe and lack of direction as the Forever Wars.

in addition to safe, affordable homes, renters should also be able to have nice things like leisure time, activities for kids etc. the cost of renting makes this impossible for so many. a bleak but important report from @betterrenting.bsky.social www.betterrenting.org.au/cost_of_rent...

The UN has now formally found Israel's genocide "consistent with genocide", including the use of weaponized starvation. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...