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253 Summer 2023/4

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Dženana Vucic on the subtle and not-so-subtle Marxist symbolism in Sailor Moon, John Docker, a "non-theatre person" by his own admission on The New Theatre, Sarah Schwartz on prison healthcare as punishment and the killing of Veronica Nelson, a poignant short story on memory and displacement from Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini, Jeanine Leane's prize-winning poem, "Water under the bridge", and more.

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Sarah Schwartz

Sarah Schwartz is a police and prison accountability lawyer who leads the Wirraway Practice at the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service and represents Uncle Percy Lovett, the partner of Veronica Marie Nelson. Sarah is also a Lecturer at the University of Melbourne and has published on the harms of police and prisons. She lives on unceded Wurundjeri land.

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Published in Overland Issue 253 Summer 2023/4 · Deaths in custody

Prison healthcare as punishment — the killing of Veronica Nelson

Sarah Schwartz

The underlying logic of the carceral system is that certain people must be made to suffer to keep the rest of the community safe. It’s a maddening lie which has been repeated so many times that we’ve forgotten there are other ways to address harm.