Craig has published many other non peer reviewed articles and he has written many legal. For example see:
Burning the law and celebrating violent vigilantism: An analysis of the public in February 2009 bushfires in Victoria, Alternative Law Journal, Vol.34, No. 2, 2009, p.118-119, 136.
This piece examines the pervasive vigilante hate speech of members of the public and the equivocating response of community leaders to the calls for murder and torture as being ‘natural’ and ‘understandable.’
Keywords: Craig Minogue, vigilante hate speech, undermining the rule of law
Burning the law and celebrating violent vigilantism: An analysis of the public in February 2009 bushfires in Victoria (pdf)
Untitled review of ‘Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the U.S.A.’ By Mumia Abu-Jamal, Alternative Law Journal, Vol.34, No.2, 2009, p.141
This is a review of Mumia Abu-Jamal‘s book which Craig highly recommends as offering a universal understanding of how people who have a poltiical consciousness work with others in their struggle for justice.
Keywords: Mumia Abu-Jamal, jailhouse lawyers
Review of ‘Jailhouse Lawyers’ by Mumia Abu-Jamal (pdf)
‘Political Prisoners and the Left in Australia’, Arena Magazine, No. 98, December-January 2008-2009, pp.11-13, also in, Inside Out, Issue 54, June 2009, pp. 15-16, and published in Wai Quarterly: an independant quarterly newspaper of indigenous and social justice issues from a progressive perspective, July 2009, p. 17-18
This is a longer version of the essay published in the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons and presented at Kings College in London and Padua in Italy by Prof. Phil Scraton. This version of the essay has a different focus on the same topic and seeks to expand the idea of a political prisoner to be a person who acts politically despite origins in common criminality and then specifically how the politics of law, order and imprisonment have been largely ignored by the left in Australia.
Arena is the leading Australia magazine of left political, social and cultural commentary and it is indexed and abstracted in the Internation Bibliography of the Social Sciences.
Keywords: political prisoners, imprisoned people acting politically, the Left in Australia
Political Prisoners and the Left in Australia (pdf)
‘What’s it got to do with you? A defence to the jail-house lawyer’ (2008)
Extracts from this essay were read by Colm McNaughton on ‘Inside China’s Prisons: Swinging open China’s cell doors to hear who’s inside, and why’, syndicated through the Radio New Internationalist, 20 July 2008, see http:www.newint.org/radio.This article details Craig’s work in one man’s case who was facing deportation and how the man was deliberately mislead by the Commonwealth Department of Immigration, the Victorian Bar Legal Assistance Scheme and others. Legal advice was obtained at the very last moment due to Craig’s efforts, but what if Craig was not acting as a jailhouse lawyer?
Keywords: jailhouse lawyer, a practical example of the work, prisoners, Australia
What’s it got to do with you? A defence to the jail-house lawyer (pdf)
Welcome Home Dad, Crossfire (Deakin University Student Association Magazine), No.15, 2002, Deakin University Geelong, p.8.
A brief piece telling the story of administrative incompetancy of Bar
won Prison officials and its frustrating of a family’s attempts to celebrate the release of their Dad.
Welcome Home Dad, Crossfire (pdf)
Access to the Courts and the Violation of this Common Law Right (1998).
This report details ‘the shoe box mentality’ and how prison authorities frustrate the ability of prisoners to participate with equity in the justice system. This frustration includes restrictions on the amount of legal documents allowed to be in the possession of a prisoner – that which can fit in a standard size shoe box. The circumstances detailed here led Craig to the Minogue v HREOC cases and his complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee in Minogue v Australia.
Keywords: access to the courts, prisoners, human rights
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DNA Profiling, Science, Civil liberties and the Law (2001)
This essay tells the inside story of the torture of prisoners by police, medical professionals, scientists and prison officers who used extreme violence to ‘unlawfully’ extract DNA samples from prisoners at Bendigo Prison in what became Lednar & Ors v Magistrates’ Court and Anor [200] VSC 549. It transpired that the Court Orders for the samples were not lawful. The piece explores the ethical issues for those that are willing to gas, bash, and penetrate the bodies of prisoners for their DNA because they are only following orders.
Keywords: DNA profiling, human rights violations, prisoners
DNA Profiling, Science, Civil liberties and the Law (pdf)
Excluding Prisoners from FOI in Victoria (2003), Freedom of Information Review, No. 104, April 2003, pp. 26-30
This essay details the systemic problems with FOI and highlights the importance of access to information for people in custody. Also detailed is the wilful incompetence of the Office of the Ombudsman in dealing with complaints from prisoners.
Keywords: Freedom of Information, FOI Act, prisoners, Ombudsman
Excluding Prisoners from FOI in Victoria (pdf)
It’s Back to the Future: Have the lessons of Jika Jika been forgotten? (2006)
This essay explores deaths in and out of custody by looking at the history of the Port Arthur Prison, the mass murder at the historical site and the quiet death of a political prisoner at Barwon Prison at the same time as the mass murder at Port Arthur.
Keywords: Bree Carlton, Jika Jika, ICOPA, Supermax
It’s Back to the Future: Have the Lessons of Jika Jika Been Forgotten? (pdf)
God knows how the prisoners are being treated (2006)
This piece charts the case of York v The Queen, a Queensland case that ended in the High Court of Australia. The State of Queensland al conceded in the State Court of Appeal that Ms York would most probably be killed in prison, but that this did not mitigate against her having to serve 2 years in custody. The purposes of sentencing, the right to life and the contempt that the Prison Service has for the Courts and the rule of law is well illustrated by this case. The title comes from a comment by Justice Callinan in the High Court.
A report on the exploitation of prisoners for the profits of private companies and how Craig was punished when he refused to work on a machine owned by Colorific Australia, with raw materials owned by Colorific Australia, to produce consumer goods, children’s toys, to be sold by Colorific Australia all with no real wages or WorkCover (OH&S) or Workers Compensation coverage.
Keywords: York v The Queen, breach of duty of care for a prisoner, sentencing, right to life
God knows how the prisoners are being treated (pdf)
The Status of Schedules: The HREOC Act & the Vague Idea of Human Rights at Australian Law (2006)
This is an argument that no-one will listen to. Craig ran this argument in Minogue v Williams (2000) Vol. 60 ALD 366, but the Court answered with reference to the rule in to the incorporation of treaties, when this was expressly NOT the argument he was making.
Keywords: human rights, Australian law, prisoners
The Status of Schedules: The HREOC Act & the Vague Idea of Human Rights at Australian Law (pdf)
Banning Books in Victoria’s Prisons: A case study of the ineffectiveness of the Ombudsman’s Office in reviewing administrative action of prison authorities and the book burning mentality of the prison system in Victoria Australia (1997-2002)
This report details the resistance to learning, culture and knowledge in the prison system as it is represented in access to books. The book is a primary symbol of civilised society, for this reason books are very problematic items in prison. Other issues that arise in the report are evident by the title.
Keywords: book burning, prisons, Ombudsman
Banning Books in Victoria’s Prisons: A case study of the ineffectiveness of the Ombudsman’s Office in reviewing administrative action of prison authorities and the book burning mentality of the prison system in Victoria Australia (pdf)
Frustrated Access to Deakin University Course Material (1998)
This essay documents how Craig’s access to University course material was so frustrated that he ended up writing more words and doing more work to get the material than he needed to do for the actual course.
Keywords: tertiary study in prison
Frustrated Access to Deakin University Course Material (pdf)
Forced labour at Barwon Prison: A brief history of a refusal to work for Colorific Australia (1999), Abolition, Vol. 1, August 2001, pp. 4-6.
A report on the exploitation of prisoners for the profits of private companies and how Craig was punished when he refused to work on a machine owned by Colorific Australia, with raw materials owned by Colorific Australia, to produce consumer goods, children’s toys, to be sold by Colorific Australia all with no real wages or WorkCover (OH&S) or Workers Compensation coverage.
Keywords: Forced Prison Labour, Australia
Forced labour at Barwon Prison: A brief history of a refusal to work for Colorific Australia (pdf)
Frustrated Access to Educational Programmes (1999), Abolition, Vol.1 August 2001, pp 12-24.
A report on the politicization of Craig’s imprisonment and how he has been frustrated from participating in education in prison.
Keywords: politicization of imprisonment, education in prison
Frustrated Access to Educational Programmes (pdf)
Stew on jail food: The view from here (2000)
This essay responds to a newspaper article that was critical of Craig taking Court action over his prison diet. Craig took the action after the prison doctor advised him that he was suffering from diseases relating to poor diet including borderline anaemia. This essay also contains information on the amount of food bought by prisoners at Barwon Prison.
Keywords: prison food, health.
Stew on jail food: The view from here (pdf)
Strip Searching of Prisoners (2000)
This essay gives details of the numbers and of the methods of strip searches of prisoners in Victoria. For an analysis of strip searching as a control mechanism see the essay The Use of a Military Level of Force on Civilian Prisoners. Strip searching is not about finding contraband, but rather making prisoners malleable to other modalities of force.
Keywords: strip searching, prisoners, sexual assault
Strip Searching of Prisoners (pdf)
The ideal, the reality and the shadow that has fallen over Australia: Case studies of failing democracy (2001)
This essay looks at the Immigration issue and the excluding of those ‘others’ from the normal legal processes of the law. Then an example of the same treatment of prisoners is detailed, but without the opposition that is found in the case of the Immigrations issue.
Keywords: immigration, othering, Australia, failure of democracy
The ideal, the reality and the shadow that has fallen over Australia: Case studies of failing democracy (pdf)
Popular culture, the muted response to human rights violations, the obscenity that is Ally McBeal and the torture chamber theory (2003)
This essay explores the normalization of the bizarre in pop culture rubbish like Ally McBeal and how this can desensitize people to the suffering of others.
Keywords: normalization of suffering
Popular culture, the muted response to human rights violations, the obscenity that is Ally McBeal and the torture chamber theory (pdf)
Profiled (2005)
A short comment on the war on terror and the killing of innocent people who have been profiled as being suspect.
Keywords: war on terror, London subway murder
Profiled – Craig Minogue (pdf)
Transporting People in Custody: Case studies in Us and Them (2005)
This essay critically looks at those who advocate for one type of person who is in custody while ignoring the same abuse of other types of people in custody. When people in immigration detention complained of human rights abuse associated with the prison transport system all hell broke loose and prison managers were sacked and enquiries called for. That ‘prisoners’ were transported in the same conditions for 150 years and continue to be transported in outrageously brutal conditions remains unspoken; prisoners being deserving of brutal treatment, but refugees not. This essay carries a post script which reveals that the leading QC who is criticised in the essay, responds to Craig sending him a copy of the essay and he agrees with Craig’s criticism, but that advocating the human rights and decent treatment of prisoners is ‘a difficult proposition to articulate clearly’. The QC’s letter is reproduced in full.
Keywords: prisoner transport, human rights
Transporting People in Custody: Case studies in Us and Them (pdf)
Education and Imprisonment (2007)
In July 2007 Craig was asked for a short general comment on education and imprisonment by an academic he works with.
Professor Phil Scraton quotes this in his talk “Exploring ‘Agency’ and ‘Resistance’ in the Context of the Violence of Incarceration”, a seminar for the Crime and Justice Research Network at the Faculty of Law and Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW. Both the audio and powerpoint presentation of Professor Scraton’s talk are are available on line.
Keywords: education, prisoners
Education and Imprisonment (pdf)
Inside my skull: Personal responsibility and the lesson learnt (2007)
This essay explores Craig’s thoughts on retributive justice versus restorative justice and a Truth and Reconciliation type of process and that the common law idea of justice does not cite moral accountability and truth. Country of my Skull (Vintage, London, 1999) by Antjie Krog motivated this essay.
Keywords: retributive justice, restorative justice, Truth and Reconciliation, moral accountability, truth, Country of my Skull
Inside my skull: Personal responsibility and the lesson learnt (pdf)
Guantanamo Bay Comes to Victoria: The Opening of the ‘Human Rights Abuse Unit’ at Barwon (2007)
This is a comment on the opening of the Melaleuca Security Unit at Barwon Prison in Victoria – Craig’s calling the Melanoma Unit for its malevolent intent.
Keywords: supermax, human rights violations.
Guantanamo Bay Comes to Victoria: The Opening of the ‘Human Rights Abuse Unit’ at Barwon (pdf)