Dedicated To Women in Prison & Ending Strip Searches in Australia

Today's broadcast is dedicated to all women in prison, women who have been formerly incarcerated, with an added focus on ending strip searches in Australia. On today's show we first hear a conversation with Sohini Mehta and Monique Hurley from the Human Rights Law Centre. Monique is an Associate Legal Director in the First Nations Justice team at the Human Rights Law Centre, along with Sohini, who is a Senior lawyer in the same team. Sohini and Monique are co-authors of 'Ending Strip Searching in Australian Prisons', a joint report by the Human Rights Law Centre, Flat Out and the Formerly Incarcerated Girls Justice Advocates Melbourne (FIGJAM) collective that was published in March this year.After that, Marisa speaks with Tabitha Lean, First Nations prison advocate who will yarn about Crim Con 2026 which is a gathering built by and for criminalised and formerly incarcerated people, grounded in the belief that the people most impacted by prisons, policing and punishment are not just participants in these conversations, but leaders, theorists, artists and organisers in their own right.