The Guardian • imprisonment
Issue #2175
HALF THE SKY
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are the fastest-growing prison population, imprisoned at more than 20 times the rate of non-Indigenous women. In addition, they...
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Issue #2064
The US Prison in film: A Marxist View
In the “land of the free,” millions languish in prisons in the name of law and order. The prison, as an institution, is used by...
Read moreAssange: when the process is the punishment
Australian Wikileaks journalist Julian Assange spent his fiftieth birthday in a London-based high-security prison earlier this month ...
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Issue #2052
DINGO
Courtesy of the Morning Star comes news that imprisoned journalist Julian Assange has written to Charles Windsor inviting him to visit him in His Majesty’s...
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Issue #2107
Victoria: closure of two prisons recognition of state violence towards Aboriginal people
Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (VALS) has welcomed the announcement of the closure of Port Phillip and Dhurringile prisons, saying that prisons represent sites of significant...
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Issue #2049
NT: Jailing your way out of crime never works
Lawyers are concerned that new bail laws recently passed in the NT will not reduce crime and will disproportionately affect Indigenous people. The Criminal Lawyers...
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Issue #2052
ATSILS alert
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (ATSILS) around Australia are calling on the federal government to deliver a $250 million emergency support package to...
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Issue #2131
Leonard Peltier: Americaís longest serving political prisoner
Joe Biden’s last days in the White House saw him issue pardons to many Americans serving prison sentences. He commuted death sentences and freed hundreds...
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Issue #2106
‘Collateral Murder’: the Wikileaks background
Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, received from Chelsea Manning, a US Army intelligence analyst, hundreds of thousands of classified or sensitive military and diplomatic...
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Issue #2086
A small demonstration outside Corrective Services was held
6 February to bring attention to failures of the NSW prison system. There have been been 3 deaths in custody already this year, and the...
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Issue #2118
DINGO
Senator Lidia Thorpe: “I just successfully passed a motion in the Senate to make the Attorney-General provide quarterly reports to the Senate about deaths in...
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Issue #2088
EDITORIAL
This editorial is written one day before Julian Assange’s last trial hearing. Significantly, Assange himself is too sick to attend the hearing, after years being...
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