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LAST MINUTE GIFT IDEAS - HELP A WOMAN OR YOUNG PERSON IN NEED. https://lnkd.in/eubMha5Q Sisters proudly supports women, trans & gender diverse folks and children that have been effected by incarceration. Programs like the young mums group & parenting programs offer education programs such as the Circle of Security to ensure parents and kids are safe and can experience secure attachment for long term happiness. This Christmas you can help @sisters_inside_inc support a family - please consider sharing the screens - copying and reposting or commenting to boost in any way 💜 💜💕 #FREEHER

Members of Sisters Inside appeared at the Public Hearing today and Condemned the “Making Queensland Safer” Bill 'We know what works, we know what harms, and we know what our community needs to thrive’ - Debbie Kilroy 'This Bill uses racial gendered violence to obliterate the human rights of children and young people. The government freely admits the amendments will cause undue harm to Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander children, undermining both their legal & human rights under the guise of community safety. These laws fail Queenslanders—they fail children—& they fail the state’s commitment to justice and equity' Full press release: https://lnkd.in/ghRAqsUN

Sisters Inside Program director, Zofia Wasiak, condemned the “racial, gendered violence that LNP's "Making Queensland Safer" Bill would perpetuate and called for an end to the “criminalisation and incarceration of children”. “[The laws] target Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and will not deliver community safety. “We object to the way the government has rushed through legislation providing little time for consultation...[and we] will not stand by quietly and watch a government lock up kids and throw away the key. “Our children deserve better.” OUSS OUSS!! https://lnkd.in/gwXbAJi9

Our NQ office had their very first Youth Cookup at SIS office today. The girls served cabbage stew and rice on lettuce cups and mars bars balls as gifts. Everyone in the office was so happy! Especially the Aunties. 💜💜💜 We are all so proud of the girls and their cooking and gift making skills. 🖤💛♥️ This is how we #freeher and end the incarceration of girls. #endincarcerationofwomenandgirls #soproud #deadly Debbie Kilroy

We are so proud to be partnering with the Judith Neilson Foundation.

We were honoured to have a visit from Lorraine Pryor from Voice for Hope and Elders from WA, here with our CEO Debbie Kilroy and crew at Sisters HQ. This is how we #freeher  

Our CEO, Debbie Kilroy - Queensland LNP’s ‘fresh start’ for youth detention is just a cruel repackaging of failed punitive policies. 'Beneath all of the fancy footwork and buzzwords, it’s just another punitive approach that punishes children for the failures of the state.' Debbie Kilroy OAM was first criminalised at the age of 13 and spent more than two decades in and out of women's and children's prisons. Driven to end the criminalisation and imprisonment of girls and women, Debbie established Sisters Inside, as well as her law firm, Kilroy & Callaghan Lawyers.

Over the last two days, Sisters Inside has been in Townsville Women’s Prison, facilitating training sessions for approximately 50 incarcerated women. We run many workshops for our sisters inside. Workshops for women to use to be able to advocate & agitate for themselves and others. The women have loved the training and will assist other women with their new learnt skills to #freeher This is abolition in practice. We as formerly incarcerated women will always work together with incarcerated women and girls to end our incarceration. We will always be held accountable by those women languishing in cages. Others who are in our lane collecting a pay check need to get out of our lane. #endtheincarcerationofwomenandgirls #sistersinside #abolitioninpractice