Tiny Treasure + Sisters Inside
10% of the sales made from the Tiny Treasures Collection will go towards Sisters Inside, an organisation run by Debbie Kilroy.
This organisation aims to help women and families within the criminal justice system. This organisation recognises that criminalisation is often related to intergenerational problems of violence, poverty, unemployment and health issues. First Nations women and girls are hugely over-represented in the system. Aboriginal people represent 3% of Australia’s population yet make up 29% of the prison population.
A project recently undertaken by this organisation was FreeHer. In WA legislation saw the imprisonment of people who had unpaid fines. This group was largely made up by First Nations people, frequently single mothers who lived in poverty. The finances raised helped overturn the legislation and went towards paying off debts and warrants for women who would have been imprisoned for what was often minor offences.
More stats and quotes from Creative Spirits - an online platform and resource dedicated to Aboriginal and First Nations culture:
48% - juveniles in custody who are Aboriginal
47% - the number of Aboriginal people in prison in NSW increased between 2013 and 2020
92% - Percentage of Australia's Aboriginal prison population who are male.
In 2020 the ratio of Aboriginal to non-Aboriginal prisoners is 1 in 4.
‘Australia owns a humanitarian crisis as the mother of jailers of its First People’ - National Suicide Prevention and Trauma Recovery
‘Western Australia incarcerates the Aboriginal peoples of its State at 9 times the rate of Apartheid South Africa.’ - Gerry Georgatos, Human Rights Alliance, Perth
‘What you cannot get away from is that the rate of Indigenous imprisonment in Western Australia is far greater than anywhere else in the country and indeed it compares with the worst rates of imprisonment, of African Americans in the United States.’ - Bob Debus, chair of the federal inquiry into the over-representation of Indigenous young people in the criminal justice system
Source:Aboriginal prison rates - Creative Spirits, retrieved from https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/law/aboriginal-prison-rates