Abstract
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are grossly over-represented in Australian prisons. It is known that Indigenous women in custody experience poor mental health, yet there is a dearth of empirical research on their specific perspectives and needs. Drawing on critical research methodologies, we report on innovative qualitative and quantitative research focusing on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women with mental and cognitive disability who have been in custody in the Australian state of New South Wales. Our findings illustrate the ways that government and community responses are poorly integrated and ineffective for Indigenous women, perpetuating rather than addressing structural violence and serial incarceration. Prisons have become institutions of default and management for disadvantaged Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women with disability.
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