Past newsletters

July 2025 newsletter – Bail Saves Lives: Snap rally against the second tranche of bail law amendments, report back on the One Million Experiments film screening and panel discussion, Hidden stories of the women’s housing crisis, and FIGJAM at the 2025 Reintegration Puzzle Conference.

June 2025 newsletter – Flat Out’s EOFY fundraising appeal, FIGJAM member wins Torch storytelling award, Upcoming events Organising for Prison Abolition and Prisons, Labour, Crisis, and 3CR Radiothon fundraiser.

April 2025 newsletter – Beyond Bricks and Bars Counselling project, FOI data on police-perpetrated family violence, report on the snap action for Poccum’s Law: Bail Saves Lives, Public housing campaign update.

February 2025 newsletter – including Beyond Bricks and Bars birthday in March, National Anti-Racism Symposium, Public housing campaign update, bail reform under threat, and an update from Formerly Incarcerated Girls Justice Advocates Melbourne (FIGJAM).

October 2024 newsletter – Prison to Deportation Pipeline report launched, Untold Stories of Injustice podcast, Save Public Housing campaign update & our EOY donations appeal.

August 2024 newsletter – featuring Beyond Bricks and Bars evaluation launch, book release: When Cops are Criminals and a new podcast on Abolition in Community Practice.

June 2024 newsletter – a bumper issue, with highlights including the submission with the Human Rights Law Centre into ending strip searching incarcerated people in prisons and Flat Out receiving a Victorian Civil Justice Award for the work done by the Beyond Survival Project.

April 2024 newsletter – including the Heather Calgaret Coronial Inquest, Save public housing sign on letter, new bail laws and a Family Violence Justice Project update.