Australia’s first national prison newspaper, About Time, will be launched in July.
The project will provide a place for people who are, or have been incarcerated to share stories and letters, receive legal education and develop connections.
This is just one example of the types of programs that exist within Australian prisons to help people reintegrate into society.
In this episode, The Conversation Hour team speaks with former prisoners and experts in the field about how to balance treatment in the justice system.
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Depending on their sentence, prisoners in Victoria have access to vocational education and certain types of employment inside the prison system.
Melbourne, Prisons and Punishment, Society