This morning Parliament of Victoria‘s Legislative Council’s Legal and Social Issues Committee delivered 69 findings and 29 recommendations in its landmark report on the impact of parental incarceration on children. Our Rachael Hambleton asked the Victorian government to dare to dream bigger. "We know that incarceration increases recidivism, while many evidence based holistic approaches that...

The Victorian Legislative Council’s Legal and Social Issues Committee is examining the policies and services available for children affected by parental incarceration.

Rachael Hambleton says "being affected by parental incarceration will differ for everybody depending on whether or not it was one or both of their parents, if they were your primary caregiver, the length of their sentence, the nature of their sentence and the publicity that might have surrounded that sentence."

We appeared at the Parliament of Victoria‘s Inquiry hearing into Victoria's Criminal Justice System this afternoon. Thank you Fiona Patten MP, Kaushaliya Vaghela MP and Tania Maxwell for inviting us to share our research. Our team members Melanie Poole, Denham Sadler, Anna Cerreto, Rachael Hambleton and Anya Saravanan shared The Justice Map’s ideas and recommendations...

When we write about the people in the criminal legal system we write about ourselves, our families and our friends. We also write about the people in our yarning circles who trusted us with their stories. It is important that we hold people accountable when they have caused harm to others. But we resist dehumanising...