Note: Kilroy is an ex-con, and her daughter is currently facing a fraud and theft rap.
[The Age] “We need to start talking about prison abolition. The prison system is a failure. Prison generates violence and institutionalisation. We need to stop people going into prison and stop them from returning to prison,” [Debbie Kiroy said].
The first former Australian inmate to become a lawyer, she called for the redirection of resources – including the Victorian government’s recent budget pledge to increase spending on prisons by $591 million – to social policies for “people on the ground” for education, health and housing.
“We pour money down the throats of prisons to prop them up when we should initially be (freeing) all non-violent people and supporting them safely in the community,” she told The Age.
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Down With Everybody 