Sisters Inside
When Professor Angela Davis speaks of the human rights abuses perpetrated in women’s prisons, she does so from personal experience. As a civil rights activist in the United States, she was imprisoned on false charges in the 1970s, and spent eighteen months in jail before being acquitted. Since that experience, Professor Davis has been a leading proponent of the abolition of the prison industrial complex. Speaking in Sydney last week, she lent her support to the recent submission to the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Commission by Sisters Inside, an Australian community organisation which advocates for women in the criminal justice system. Professor Davis praised the Sisters Inside submission for its commitment to fundamental principles which promote the human rights of prisoners.
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