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This show features Criminologist and Tharawal and Yorta Yorta woman Robyn Oxley on prison abolition and the link between prisons and colonisation.

You can also watch this discussion in video form here and below.

Links:

• Panel discussion featuring Robyn Oxley and other speakers on the question ‘So What If…We Didn’t Have Prisons?’. Available in both video and audio formats.
• On this episode we go through some feedback on our 231^st episode: Pop Culture and Politics, which included a discussion on the show The Society and asked the question is the state inherently violent? With prisons given as an example.
• International Imprisonment Rates – from the Sentencing Advisory Council Victoria.
• The article ‘Prison is not for punishment in Sweden. We get people into better shape’ – a 2014 interview with Swedish director-general Nils Öberg in The Guardian.

'More than 40% of prisoners in Australian prisons are serving sentences for non-violent or non-sexual offences.' http://t.co/wfgLyRmy0n

— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) April 12, 2015

• Angela Davis on Democracy Now! Discussing prison abolition, defund the police and other topics (available in video, written transcript and you can also listen to the 2020-09-07 episode of the Democracy Now! podcast for an audio version).
• The Vegan Vanguard ‘9. #MeToo and the Threat of Carceral Feminism’ (podcast).
• The documentary Herman’s House, about Herman Wallace, who spent decades in prison in the US, much of this time in solitary confinement.
• Beyond the Bars on 3CR Community Radio – featuring the voices of Indigenous people in the Victorian prison system.
• Thanks to Anya from Women on the Line on 3CR for suggesting Robyn as a guest. You can also hear Anya covering the topic of prison abolition on Tuesday Breakfast on 3CR.

I highly recommend this episode of @FactuallyPod with a former police officer on his experiences, problems with the police, why the police should NOT be considered a part of the working class, #DefundThePolice and moving towards #AbolishPolice ~ N https://t.co/feDv2d0ina

— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) July 27, 2020

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Clips:

OneFour ‘Welcome to Prison’, Onsind ‘Frankland Prison Blues’.

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