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Message from Justice Action in Austraila on Abolition

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Message to "Discovering Balance" Conference, Perth October 2, 2008. Justice Action attended the prison abolition conference "Critical Resistance" CR10 in San Francisco last weekend presenting a workshop and talking with key organisers. We also were in London in July for the International Conference on Penal Abolition ICOPA X11, and facilitated its final report. Last week we achieved a landmark success forcing the NSW government to transfer the prison hospital from Corrective Services to Health, following a six month campaign involving the patients, nurses, psychiatrists, mental health and community organisations Australia-wide. It meant gaining hospital conditions including late lock-in for the patients. Here we share the lessons we learnt from those experiences...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 05, 2008 (boomark / email).