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Freedom in a prison with boundaries, but no walls
By Jonathan Pearlman
August 17, 2004
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Inside this prison without walls or guards, the compound is shaped like a boomerang. But once released, the prisoners generally don't come back.

Escaping would be easy, but the inmates would rather not stray from the prison's benefits: better pay and education, no lock-ins, and a chance to inherit the lore of their ancestors. Besides, there would be nowhere to go.

Yetta Dhinnakkal (meaning "the right pathway"), on a 10,553-hectare former sheep farm near Brewarrina, has undone traditional prison rules in an attempt to keep young Aboriginal criminals from reoffending. It was designed to redress a statistic: one in 27 indigenous men is in prison, a rate nearly 17 times that for non-indigenous men, according to the Bureau of Statistics.

Inmates are guided by tribal elders and shown a past beyond their recent crimes and troubled youths. For many, it is their first contact with their Aboriginal heritage. After release, inmates have gone back to school, to university, finished apprenticeships and opened businesses. The reoffending rate since the prison opened in 2000 is about 20 per cent, compared with 40 per cent across the state.

Dale Walsh, 23, a former heroin addict, was sentenced to nine months for shoplifting and after being caught with bolt-cutters in Newtown. "When I first came in here, I was lost," he said. "I didn't know who I was. Here they give you more freedom, but you're pressured to be responsible for your own actions. I've said sorry enough but that doesn't really help. I just have to get a job and a place to live and rely on myself. I've never had these sorts of goals before."

He is looking to work as a fencer - a job he learned inside - and has moved to Tamworth.

The prison's unorthodox practices - including no yard musters and compulsory courses in literacy, numeracy and anger management - are based on recommendations from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

"In here, they get to think about what they are going to do with their life, not just what they have got to do to survive," said Clarrie Dries, the prison's Aboriginal governor, who has worked in prisons for 30 years and helped design many of Yetta Dhinnakkal's techniques.

"All we can do is open the door up for them. Some you have to push a bit, but the majority go through it themselves."

The State Government announced plans last year to open another prison based on Yetta Dhinnakkal on the North Coast.

I'm hoping to use it for module 3 but I'm yet to have even started analysing it.

Can someone please start me off? What are the techniques/themes of the article?

 

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Theme would be Change/Belonging

Change - They have changed their ways and now value life more and have more ideas of right and wrong

Belonging - The once belonged to a prison system, when they are realsed they no longer belong to the prison system but to society.

1st line: Metaphore
Why?: decribing the prision shaped like a boomerang - then saying the prisions dont come back.


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