Meeting the woman who went from jailbird to legal eagle
By Stefanie Costi|09 February 2021
Determined to never return to a life in handcuffs, former prisoner Deborah Kilroy has become a lawyer and fierce advocate for the decarceration of women and girls. How did she do it? Stefanie Costi (pictured) meets the woman who decided to use her time in prison for good.
When Deborah Kilroy OAM was sentenced to six years in jail for selling cannabis to undercover police in 1989, she never imagined herself as a principal of law firm, Kilroy & Callaghan or chief executive of Sisters Inside in years to come. Nor did Ms Kilroy envisage herself being awarded the Order of Australia for services to the community for women in prison in 2003 or being appointed to the Queensland Government Sentencing Advisory Council in 2017.
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