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This is a key to JA's work.It was presented to the NSW Legislative Council 2009 as part of the campaign against the corporate privatisation of prisons. It is an analysis of the conflicting policies of social exclusion and community building, giving examples of how they conflict in practice and offering…
Authors, topics and documents presented at the International Conference on Penal Abolition.
IFPS - International Foundation for a Prisonless Society CAN YOU HELP? The International Foundation for a Prisonless Society was established in 1991 by Ruth and Ray Morris, for the following purposes: To support and sustain the International Conferences for Penal Abolition To make it possible for more people with limited…
Why We Oppose Home Detention Justice Action opposes the use of Home Detention (HD). It damages the family and the home for others without any consideration of the effects, or acknowledgement of the costs. It discriminates by disproportionately effecting women. Families become prison guards to their loved ones, and the…
Prison as a last Resort It is true that by law no woman should be sent to prison for identifiable, non-violent offences. Former inmate and author, Blanche Hampton, asserts that it is extremely harmful and unproductive if women are in prison for non-violent drug related offences.
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