Fighting for female prisoners: Debbie Kilroy and the story of Sisters Inside | Australian Story 2019
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- Опубліковано 24 жов 2022
- The fall and rise of Debbie Kilroy - from high security women’s prisoner to high-profile crusading lawyer. Subscribe: ab.co/3yqPOZ5
Debbie was sentenced to six years for drug trafficking. She began university studies in jail and made history when she became the first woman with a serious conviction to be admitted as ‘a fit and proper person’ to the bar of Queensland.
Debbie mounted a spur-of-the-moment crowd-funding campaign to pay off the court debts of Indigenous women incarcerated in Western Australia for defaulting on fines.
The campaign raised more than $1 million, helping 140 women.
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She has been doing an amazing job, showing by example that when you get out you can go straight. This is real freedom. Well done Deb.
You're amazing Debbie, I am in awe of your tenacity, humanity and drive to have accomplished
all this. Thank you for caring for all the sisters and creating ways and means to lift them out of the
industrial prison complex that perpetuates the marginalisation and poverty.
You honestly are a Role Model. Who better to do the job than a person who has lived it. Thankyou for helping these ladies . Cheers 👍🍻
Good on you, Debbie.
Maybe there's hope for me to become admitted to the bar.
you go girl
Wow!!! Just wow!!! A woman's determination can never be underestimated. Your tenacity to make a change for your life has made the lives of so many people safer, richer and rewarding. I'm in awe. Thank you for what you do.
Beautiful story. Thank you for being an example of hope and change. !! 🙏
So wonderful to see someone whom has seen much more by experience ,
Is doing a masterly job in supporting those not given a voice .
Youth detention is brutal and will harden the impulse to have no fear.
No fear of Death or consequences for adrenalin high.
Lived Experience provides the inside knowledge which No textbook could provide, specially when that knowledge and experience are being used to assist and support those in need.
Prison is definitely a place that needs more equality
Correct
Gosh I’m in WA caught up in the incestuous legal system / boys club in Perth. There is no justice here, only a capitalist legal system. My trial is in November for false charges, I have presented evidence proving my innocence to many overseeing authorities, but no one cares. I’m just a woman alone in a low socio economic situation, they can and do dismiss me easily. I’ve paid almost $50k from my mortgage on lawyers, but now have to represent myself due lawyers vanishing and lawyers working with prosecution to try to force me into a plea… to prosecution delaying and wasting the money I didn’t have to begin with. Faced now with losing my home and my freedom. Although I have not done anything to warrant this. It’s false accusations from a nasty and controlling ex boss who has lost his cash cow and now has to do the work himself or lose his business. He has long standing friends in the force who were happy to prosecute me on his word alone and did not investigate, even when a court order was raised to ensure this. They just waited for the right magistrate to throw it out of court. It’s very very wrong. There is nobody here like Debbie. Debbie you are AWESOME!
I sincerely wish you the best of luck in what must feel like a hopeless situation! 🤞 It's tough enough being stuck in a low socioeconomic situation as it is without legal problems, and the added costs of that. Fighting an adversary who apparently has made some convenient friends in the system must be extremely overwhelming and discouraging. Maybe you should try to reach out to her people for help...? It couldn't possibly hurt you! Try your best to stay strong through this, Kim. Your comment hit me in the heart. I'll be thinking about you, all the way from Norway.
Go for a jury trial
Debbie, you are truly amazing!!
What an achievement ❤️
i've been following Deb for years. You're a wonderful soul .
WOW " this women is incrediable, wish we all had your courage, what a hell difference you have made.
What amazing story well done you are avantastic lady
Some of these women need to face the music
Love this empowered women empower women/children what a role model you are Debbie 💝😇
Wondering what Debbie thinks of men serving time in women's prisons and how that impacts sisters inside.
Great work Debbie!
That's what I was hoping this was about.
Debbie you are amazing 👏 ❤️
A beautiful story Debbie Kilroy you are the best wow !
Bagging Resi workers yep that works how about a world where men and women don't have experience to violence
Wow what an inspiration
Wow
Thank God Debra
How is paying the fines for these women going to help them and what lesson will this teach them? They'll get into debt, not pay fines and expect someone will get them out of their situation. No no.
what a joke , if you do the crime then do the time . regarding the fines , easy fix , don't speed
man what a life
She doesn’t mind playing the victim thats for sure
Lol
where are the fathers?
Seems very noble. What about men in the same situation? Who’s paying their fines?
Whataboutism!
@@TariAkpodiete incorrect, I wasn’t responding to an accusation or difficult question. Just pointing out blatant sexism.
Why is it always women's place to sort out men's problems as well. Why don't you get off your backside and help men. Stop waiting for mummy to make everything better.
She affords 5 kids but can't take care of their speeding Inna direct way
Criminals are Criminal
Such wisdom
Stop crying and do your time