Supporting Criminalised Women, Girls, Children and Families
Sisters Inside is an Aboriginal-led organisation advocating for the human rights of women and girls in prison and their families. We provide vital services to break cycles of poverty, violence, and incarceration, creating pathways to safety, healing, and freedom.
Your support helps women rebuild their lives.
Services and Programs
We know that ANY time spent in prison harms women and children. Therefore, our overarching goal is to reduce the number of women in prison – supporting them to avoid going to prison in the first place, to apply for parole as soon as they are eligible, and to stay out of prison following release.
For Women
We provide in-prison and community-based programs across Queensland focused on safety, wellbeing and justice. These include sexual assault and anti-violence counselling, health support, parole and bail advocacy, and decarceration initiatives that help women leave prison sooner and stay out.
For Mum’s & Kids
Our programs help mothers in prison maintain relationships with their children and rebuild family life after release. Through initiatives like Building on Women’s Strengths (BOWS) and Child and Parenting Support (CaPS), we assist with family reunification, parenting skills, and healing from trauma – because every child deserves stability and love.
For Young People
We support young people affected by the prison system to stay connected to family, culture and community. Programs like ReConnect, Yangah and Barista Sistas focus on education, employment, and creative expression, empowering young people, especially First Nations girls, to build safer, stronger futures.
Five to Free Her
Sisters Inside is calling on everyone to contribute just $5 a week to bring joy, safety and freedom to the women and kids we walk alongside.
With new laws like “adult crime, adult time”, our children are being punished and locked up.
We’re responding with love, care and connection to address the underlying issues affecting criminalised women and children.
Just five bucks a week, less than the cost of a coffee, can make a real difference in someone’s life.
Your donations help us provide:
News and Advocacy
Opposition to the Making Queensland Safer (Adult Crime, Adult Time) Amendment Bill 2025
We welcome the opportunity to provide a submission to the Justice, Integrity and Community Safety Committee on the Making Queensland Safer (Adult Crime, Adult Time) Amendment Bill 2025. Sisters Inside is a proudly abolitionist, grassroots organisation led by...
Sisters Inside Condemns the Expansion of ‘Adult Crime, Adult Time’ Laws
Sisters Inside categorically opposes the expansion of the Queensland Government’s ‘Adult Crime, Adult Time’ laws, which will further entrench the criminalisation of Queensland’s children—particularly Aboriginal children. ‘Since the LNP first introduced this draconian...
Our children deserve better than what the LNP are dishing up
A statement by Debbie Kilroy, CEO of Sisters Inside: ‘Today is a dark day in Queensland’s history as we bear witness to legislation purporting to make Queensland safer pass through our parliament. This legislation will target some of the most vulnerable children in...
