First Nations women are the fastest-growing group of people being sent to prison in Australia.
On any given night, four out of 10 women behind bars are Indigenous women, despite making up only 2.5 per cent of the adult female population.
Florence believes many women on the inside are wrongly locked away.
"A lot of the women shouldn't be here. Some women are here for unlicensed driving or … unpaid speeding fines," she said.
"A lot of the women are in here because of poverty and because of systemic oppression and unresolved intergenerational trauma, grief and pain."
These are all issues she believes the government is turning a blind eye to.
"While we're giving the support here, we're continually advocating to government about what the needs are in the community. And building more prisons and incarcerating more people is not the answer to resolve these issues," she said.
Brooke Fryer and Richard Mockler report.
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