Sydney Community Foundation through its Sydney Women Fund, and the Keeping Women Out of Prison Coalition invite you to a special presentation by Dr Kath McFarlane and John Murray.
Exploring the care to prison pipeline: how women and girls end up in custody
Where: Knox Room
Union, University & Schools Club (UUSC)
25 Bent Street, Sydney
When: Friday, 13 July 2018
12.15pm for 12.30pm until 2pm
Tickets are $70
Dr Kath McFarlane is the Acting Director of the Centre for Law and Justice at Charles Sturt University, and a former Chief of Staff to the NSW Minister for Planning, Attorney General and Justice, Family and Community Services and Social Housing.
She is a former Executive Officer of the NSW Sentencing Council, and the NSW Children’s Court, and is a current member of the NSW Corrective Services’ Women’s Advisory Council.
She is currently the Chief Investigator for a Criminology Research Council funded-project examining the views of residential care workers, police, magistrates and other frontline professionals regarding children in care’s involvement in the justice system.
John Murray spent 11 years in the NSW and Tasmanian Out-Of-Home Care systems following his mother’s incarceration.
He is the former coordinator of the international coalition ‘The No New Women’s Prison’ (NNWPC) which successfully lobbied for a Parliamentary Inquiry into the NSW Prison system (2000), and the former co-presenter of 2SERFMs Jailbreak program. In 2004 he was awarded an Australian Human Rights Commission Award (2004) for his work on the institutionalisation of women and children.
