After Prison Network

A new national network, increasing community safety by improving outcomes for people after prison in Australia. On a break until Dec 2021.

[After Prison Network @after_prison]

Regrettably it is now not feasible to run a face to face ⁦@ReintPuzzle⁩ conference in 2021. We hope that the conference can take place in early 2022 in Perth.

Pls stay connected by joining the After Prison Network (https://t.co/f979EDdveW) and by attending our webinars

[Reintegration Puzzle Conference @ReintPuzzle]

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⁦@KinnerStuart⁩ ⁦@DrHannahGraham⁩ ⁦@MelissaSweetDr⁩ ⁦@JailingsFailing⁩ ⁦@AndrewDay123⁩ ⁦@LynoreGeia⁩ ⁦@RedCrossAU⁩ ⁦@JesuitSocialSer⁩ ⁦@unimelbcrim⁩ ⁦⁦@DeakinCrim⁩ https://t.co/JLhAcPLnrD

[After Prison Network @after_prison]

Sharing some news from us 🙏
⁦@crimsonchat⁩ ⁦@turner_research⁩ ⁦@SACvic⁩ ⁦@DrKellyRichards⁩ ⁦@CaroDoyle13⁩ ⁦@ReintPuzzle⁩ ⁦@SocialRWA⁩ ⁦⁦@FionaPattenMLC⁩ ⁦@KarenGelb⁩ ⁦⁦@DrMindySotiri⁩ https://t.co/4iUCoUMOX6

[Change the Record @Change_Record]

This is one of the many reasons we must #RaiseTheAge. So many of our young people trapped in prisons, have been let down by agencies, departments and institutions that have failed to recognise their disabilities and provide them with the support and services they need.

[Change the Record @Change_Record]

There’s a huge gap in data collection to properly identify, and quantify, First Nations peoples with disability who have been criminalised and pushed into the criminal justice system - @AxCheryl #DisabilityRC

[Done By Law @donebylaw]

We're looking for new volunteers with a community legal background to help produce and host Done By Law on @3CR!

[CEDA @ceda_news]

In a reversal of global trends, women’s incarceration rates have skyrocketed in Australia over the past decade, especially in Victoria.

@InnovateJustice's Elena Campbell looks at how 'decarceration' could give our recovering economy a much-needed boost.

https://t.co/SzWZS8DzTp

[Bridget Harris @DrBridgetHarris]

And here is @jodi_death, chuffed to be receiving this recognition from @BraveheartsInc along with @CrimeJusticeQUT colleague @DrKellyRichards, for their key work on sexual offending and responses

[Greg Barns SC @BarnsGreg]

Palaszczuk cracks down on young criminals https://t.co/2wXQ182WTT These changes will lead to more crime, more Indigenous detention, increased risk of youth offenders becoming adult offenders. It is knee jerk, myopic and dangerous #qldpol @AustLawAlliance

[ATSILS @atsils]

Services Not Sentences

"The Government should be focusing its efforts on investing in services that address the underlying causes of crime, namely social and economic disadvantage, not ramping up more punitive measures.” - Shane Duffy ATSILS (QLD) CEO

https://t.co/ZJtIV220oE

[Robert Tickner @RobertTickner]

Justice Reform Initiative Patron and UNSW VC Prof Eileen Baldry issues powerful call for Disability Royal Commission to examine distressing and damaging experience of people with cognitive disabilities in criminal justice system https://t.co/SwMxSPy7Kv @JailingsFailing @FPDNAus

[Justice Reform Initiative @JailingsFailing]

"Victoria has embarked on a massive prison expansion just as many other countries are moving to non-custodial options for offenders." Endlessly building more prisons is an ineffective political response. Jailing is failing - join the campaign via bio link
https://t.co/BZpqVv5foC

[CID @CIDvoice]

Sackville- The criminal justice system is being used as “a lightning rod for simple answers to complex problems”.

The real answers are there and this hearing will lay them out.

#DisabilityRC

[Justice Reform Initiative @JailingsFailing]

Horrific testimony from #DisabilityRC revealing impact of indefinite detention: “she had been in an out of juvenile incarceration throughout her adolescence...confined to effective isolation between 2014 and late 2020, including seclusion for 23 hrs/day”

https://t.co/mImS2nfIpz

[Justice Reform Initiative @JailingsFailing]

We support the call from @CIDvoice for an end to indefinite detention. Resources and support are needed to stop people cycling in and out of the prison system.
Join the movement for change here 👉https://t.co/vppZG6qJqT

[Prof Eileen Baldry @eileenbaldry]

Over 1,000 Australians with cognitive disability are detained indefinitely each year. This shameful practice needs to stop. @UNSW @ConversationEDU
https://t.co/mK4GIxyp0t

[Justice Reform Initiative @JailingsFailing]

A warning from the head of the NT's parole board which reflects our broken system around the country. Record numbers of people being locked up while prison and community-based support programs are slashed. Jailing is failing - join our movement for change https://t.co/Xz8aF6KkNB

[Justice Reform Initiative @JailingsFailing]

The age of criminal responsibility in Tasmania used to be 7. Now it’s 10. That’s not much better. Time to #raisetheage.
https://t.co/E2hyDHJifM

[Justice Reform Initiative @JailingsFailing]

Governments need to strengthen programs like the Justice Advocacy Service – not weaken them. The overrepresentation of people with disability in our prisons is clear evidence of how the Australian criminal justice system is inherently broken @CIDvoice
https://t.co/nba2uCoIwW

[After Prison Network @after_prison]

.@DRC_AU
This week examines experiences in the criminal justice system

What needs to change?

https://t.co/GwMTZiI233