Belle Walker has used her experience as an inmate in New South Wales to design an online tool to help other female prisoners navigate the system she found complex and confusing.
It was the basics, such as having money in her account to buy hygiene products, as well as more complex things like the bail system.
"When you enter prison, you realise that there are people with severe disability, low level literacy and really poor mental health," she said.Ms Walker was determined to use her time for good, and started keeping a detailed diary. Ms Walker's goal is for the app to become one of the few sites that women can access on tablets available to them while in prison.Ms Walker is working with the Centre for Inclusive Design, a social enterprise that develops design solutions, to ensure the online tool is accessible for the large numbers of women in prison suffering from cognitive impairment.
"We know that the majority of women in prison have an acquired brain injury," the fund's chief executive Loredana Fyffe said.
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