Statement on the Findings of the Coronial Inquest into the passing of Veronica Nelson
See our statement here.
Healing Garden
The artwork used on this website – Healing Garden – was created by Stacey, a proud Taungurung/Boon Wurrung artist with experience of the criminal legal system. As Stacey explains, “the healing garden is a place of refuge. The blue tongue lizard goes there to get away from the environment of the jail. This is the…
2019 Annual Justice Dinners
On Saturday, 29 June 2019 get together with your friends to host a meal and support our work with vulnerable women We are excited to invite our friends and supporters to take part in LACW’s annual Justice Dinners. These are our major fundraising event where we ask you to get together with your friends to…
Bail is the bottleneck driving up prisoner numbers
LACW is committed to supporting our clients to get bail and stay out on bail. This is how women keep their kids and their housing. It’s also how a sentencing court can see what a woman can do with case management support. See the attached article regarding the rising numbers of unsentenced prisoners swelling Victoria’s…
Bail reform cannot protect us
Three years ago, we responded to the growing numbers of women in prison, especially women being held on remand, pre-sentence by developing Victoria’s first dedicated criminal defence practice for women. We get women out on bail. We get them linked to services and that means we get them better outcomes at the point of sentence.…
LACW thanks Arnold Bloch Leibler, the Human Rights Law Centre and Women’s Health West for Being Bold for Change this IWD
International Women’s Day 2017 has been a time for LACW for reflect on the work achieved in the last 12 months and the considerable work that we see ahead. Our Principal, Jillian Prior was a panelist at two excellent IWD events this year. At the Women’s Health West breakfast, Jill joined an impressive line up…
LACW in LIV Journal
The Law Institute of Victoria has profiled LACW to coincide with our official launch.
Done by Law – Aboriginal Imprisonment rates
Done by Law program on the spike in rates of imprisonment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Victoria with special guest, Ruth Barson from the Human Rights Law Centre, 3CR Community Radio.
A wicked problem: women and imprisonment
These earlier news articles track the slow and steady rise in rates of imprisonment for women, as well as illustrating many of the circumstances that drive the criminalisation of women: ‘Pressure on womens jails’, The Age, 20 March 2011 ‘The women inside’, The Age, 22 June 2010
Overcrowding of prisons is no solution
It is clear that Victoria needs an approach that can help people stay out of prison. When any person goes the jail the consequences reverberate through communities but the knock-on impacts can be particularly serious for women who are often carers and parents. ‘Australia’s prison system overcrowded to bursting point with more than 33,000 people…