Welcome to Archer Magazine issue #18: the INCARCERATION issue.
Guest edited by Tabitha Lean.
“There is a solidarity among those who have seen the inside of a cage that the non-criminalised will never understand,” writes guest editor, Tabitha Lean.
“When I walked out of the gates of prison, I made it my mission to dedicate my life to abolition. I wanted to use my hands to tear the system apart – brick by brick, bar by bar, word by word, policy by policy.”
Having spent almost two years in Adelaide Women’s Prison and a total of 18 months on Home Detention, Tabitha Lean uses her lived prison experience to argue that the criminal punishment system is a brutal, and too often deadly, colonial frontier for her people.
