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justicematters

Nov 23, 2023

The project began as a collaboration Margaret Burns, a teacher at the Dawn De Loas Correctional Centre in Sydney, and Kate Pinnock, the producer and presenter of the weekly “Jailbreak” radio show on 2 SER. Kate ran a series of workshops for a small group of volunteer inmates. After creating edited content for...


Aug 22, 2023

This episode features recordings from the Compulsory Drug Treatment Correctional Centre at Parklea, near Sydney. The Red Room Company delivered their highly successful "Unlocked" prison poetry programme over a period of three full days. The outcomes included a print anthology, a CD of audio recordings (spoken word and...


Jan 26, 2023

The Justice Reform Initiative is an alliance of people who share long-standing professional experience, lived experience and/or expert knowledge of the justice system. In this episode we hear from two representatives of this campaigning group. They believe jailing is failing and that there is an urgent need to reduce...


Dec 1, 2022

This episode features the music tracks that were created in workshops run by Indigenous hip hop outfit Last Kinection at John Moroney Correctional Centre, west of Sydney. Working with Indigenous prisoners musicians Joel Wenitog, Simone Stacey and DJ Jay Tee wrote and recorded three tracks which were performed at...


Oct 14, 2022

This episode documents a music talent competition organised by music teacher Heiko Altman in a western Sydney jail. Some remarkable talent was uncovered and the proceedings were filmed for an internal jail TV project. The best performers were given the opportunity to record in a fully equipped music studio. The...