Other publications and resources

Beyond Bricks and Bars: Trans Decarceration Project – Evaluation Report

Beyond Bricks & Bars is a testament to backing community-led projects. This is loud and clear in the project’s first evaluation, led by Jo Farmer Consulting and released in August 2024.

Gender Drug Offences and Criminalisation (PDF)

Flat Out and the Centre for the Human Rights of Imprisoned People (CHRIP), 2012.

Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Women in Victorian Prisons (PDF)

Subtitled, Update on Developments since the 2005 Request for Systemic Review of Discrimination against Women in Victorian Prisons, this report was prepared by Centre for the Human Rights of Imprisoned People and Springvale Monash Legal Service in October 2010.

Inside the Story Telling Project (PDF)

Poetry, stories and artwork of women with a lived experience of incarceration, who participated in a series of workshops run by the Centre for the Human Rights of Imprisoned People (CHRIP) at Flat Out.

Sustaining and Informing Social Change (PDF)

Effective advocacy with imprisoned people, and strategic fundraising. Lessons learned, challenges, and future directions. Report prepared by Phoebe Barton, Flat Out and the Centre for the Human Rights of Imprisoned People in 2008.

Flat Out Inc.: A Brief Herstory (PDF)

This book was produced on Flat Out’s 20th anniversary in 2008.

Children: Unintended victims of legal process (PDF)

A review of policies and legislation affecting children with incarcerated parents. Prepared by Terry Hannon, Flat Out and Victorian Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders in 2010.

Call Me By My First Name: Women’s issues pre and post-release from prison: Flat Out (2007).

Publication only available in hard copy.