Tahlia Isaac

Where are they sleeping?

Like they don't have anything.

People are being released just straight back into the circumstances they were coming from.

Just like when I got bail.

So Project Herself is a peer-led organisation.

Yeah.

We support women in custody and in community and we also do a lot of advocacy.

Yeah.

So when I say peer-led, like all of our organisation, everyone's been in prison.

We're all women who have been in prison.

Yeah, we go back into prisons and we mentor and help women start to plan for their release and what that might look like.

We also have those conversations that I wish someone had with me when I was first time ever in court going, this isn't going to be good.

You have a choice.

You do have choices and you have potential and you're a product of your decisions, not your circumstances.

You are...

capable and you're excellent and you're, you know, all of the things that I wish someone had said to me.

Yeah.

We say that to women.

We go back into prison and we do that and we help them practically plan for the day that they get released.

Because it's a whole heap of different things you've got to think about.