Helen Barnacle

Born in Melbourne, Helen Barnacle received the longest drug-related prison sentence for a woman in Victoria and won a landmark battle to become the first prisoner permitted to keep her baby beyond the age of 12 months. Having survived the trauma of giving up her daughter, heroin addiction and eight years in prison, today she a successful psychologist, drug counsellor, a tireless campaigner for prison reform and, most importantly, mother to Ali, the daughter she began raising in prison.