Homes not Prisons

Homes not Prisons Homes not Prisons is a campaign calling on the Victorian Government to stop the expansion of Dame Phy

On 19 March 2021 the Victorian Government announced construction of 106 new cells at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, a maximum-security prison for women in Ravenhall in Melbourne’s west at a cost of $188.9 million. The expansion includes two new 20-bed “Management Units” for solitary confinement. Dame Phyllis Frost currently has capacity to imprison 604 women. In June 2020, at the height of the COV

ID pandemic, there were around 330 women in the prison. Numbers are now increasing again and are currently over 400. Expansion of Victoria’s women prison is part of a $1.8 billion expansion of prisons for women, men, transgender and gender diverse people across Victoria announced in the 2019/20 Victorian Budget. Despite reductions in prisoner numbers in Victoria during the COVID pandemic the Andrews Government remains committed to building thousands of new prison cells. Homes not Prisons is a campaign calling on the Victorian Government to stop the expansion of Dame Phyllis Frost and re-allocate the budget for prison building to public housing and to provide “housing first” and support for criminalised women and their children. Victoria spends the least on public housing per capita of any Australian state or Territory. The Big Housing Build announced in the 2020/21 budget is focused on privately operated “community” and “affordable” housing and will not increase public housing accessible to criminalised and highly disadvantaged women and families.

10/08/2026
Wednesday 12 August, 12.45, Vic Parliament steps Spring St
07/08/2026

Wednesday 12 August, 12.45, Vic Parliament steps Spring St

07/08/2026

Social connection, fresh air and exercise are fundamental to physical and mental health and survival. The Victorian Government's Corrections Amendment Bill 2026 (No Air in Prison Bill) seeks to legalise the inhumane lockdowns and solitary confinement currently rife across Victorian prisons, including the Dame Phyllis Frost women's prison.

For people already living with trauma, mental ill-health or disability - as the vast majority of people in prison are - these conditions compound suffering, increase the risk of self-harm, suicidal ideation and long-term psychological injury.

Join us on the steps of Parliament next Wednesday lunchtime 12 August to call on the government to withdraw the No Air bill and stop suffocating human rights.

08/04/2026

Locking up children doesn’t achieve anything. It’s harmful for everyone: kids, families and communities.

The evidence is clear; any time spent behind bars increases the likelihood that the child will be trapped in a cycle of offending and incarceration – ultimately increasing future crime.

And yet right now, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are being criminalised and imprisoned at alarming rates.

That’s why we, alongside 200 organisations and leaders across civil society, have signed NATSILS’ open letter to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, calling on him to act.

Will you add your name too? www.natsils.org.au/open-letter-pm/

04/04/2026

At the vigil in Flemington - Honk for Public Housing - a large group of teenagers walked past on their way to school and yelled out "Save the Towers!" Most people are not sucked in by Labor's propaganda which is very interesting and gratifying...People are not stupid. We always get heaps of motorists supporting our protest by honking their horns as they drive past. FR

No Mykis. No “Inspectors”. No turnstiles. No fines. No fear. And we use the billions we save to expand and improve PT.
02/04/2026

No Mykis. No “Inspectors”. No turnstiles. No fines. No fear. And we use the billions we save to expand and improve PT.

26/03/2026

Now is the time to get amongst it. We’re all doing pretty amazing work. Responding to the boot which is trying to stamp down on the human face of everyone here, we are strong. We retain our spirit. We keep on loving community. We fight for housing. For shelter. For safety. For younger and older people alike. We all see through the hoodwinking, through the lies. Through the cruelty and deception. Join us in this fight and make some lifelong friends while you’re at it. Smash your TV.

Honouring these legends at the St Kilda bowlo last night…. Care Not Cruelty + The Save Public Housing Collectiveepublichousingcollective + 44 Flats United🔥

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