Vice Australia wants to prove young people are after serious content with incarceration issue

Vice Australia has devoted a special edition of its magazine to Australia’s “complicated relationship with imprisonment” with editor Royce Akers hopeful the serious nature of the magazine will prove content for young people does not have to be frivolous.

Launched today, the Incarceration Issue aims to serve “as an audit” of social issues and is accompanied by an online edition featuring a documentary series called ‘Over Represented’.

Speaking to Mumbrella, Akers said: “We wanted to show that while we make content for young people that doesn’t mean you have to make frivolous content. Young people care about fairness, what’s going on and this is a way for us to show that.”

Akers said there is a “level of secrecy” that goes on when it comes to the media reporting imprisonment, saying Vice wanted “to talk about it, to tell stories, these are stories we feel need to be told and that our readers want to read.”