Part I – Prisons and Prisoners
Prisoners and the penal estate in Australia
Russell Hogg
Words from the prisoners: Impacts of overcrowding
The rights of Indigenous prisoners
Loretta Kelly
Words from the prisoners: Prisoners at risk
Deprivation of liberty – deprivation of rights
Debbie Kilroy & Anne Warner
Words from the prisoners: Family
Experiences of inmates with an intellectual disability
Jenny Green
Words from the prisoners: Staying healthy in prison
Prisoners of difference
Greta Bird
Words from the prisoners: Catering for prisoners speaking English as a second language
Part II – Regulating Prison and Prisoners Rights
‘Not the King’s enemies’: prisoners and their rights in Australian history
Mark Finnane and Tony Woodyatt
Words from the prisoners: Law and Order (a poem) by Noel Han
Televising the invisible: prisoners, prison reform and the media
Catherine Lumby
Words from prisoner advocates: Queensland Prisons: 1980s and 1990s
Margaret Reynolds, former Qld Senator (ALP)
An insider’s view: human rights and excursions from the flat lands
Craig WJ Minogue
Words from the prisoners: Legal assistance
Protection of prisoners’ rights in Australian private prisons
John Rynne
Words from the prisoners: Impacts of privatisation
Prisoners as citizens: a view from Europe
Vivian Stern
Part III – Citizenship and Rights
International human rights law applicable to prisoners
Camille Giffard
Institutional perspectives and constraints
John Dawes
Words from the prisoners: Prison discipline
Segregation
David Robinson
Prisoners’ rights to health and safety
Michael Levy
Words from the prisoners: Health care
Crime victims and prisoners’ rights
Sam Garkawe
Words from the prisoners: Preparing for release
Prisoners and the right to vote
Melinda Ridley-Smith & Ronnit Redman
Prisoners as citizens
David Brown