Australia's toughest prisons : inmates / James Phelps
- Bib ID:
- 7087041
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Phelps, James, author
- Description:
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- North Sydney, NSW : Penguin Random House Australia, 2016
- ©2016
- viii, 261 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780143780533 (paperback)
- Summary:
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These are the true and uncensored accounts of Australia's hardest inmates, from Australia's hardest inmates. Martin Bryant -- who killed 35 people and injured another 23 at Port Arthur in 1996 -- is a 160kg slob who trades sex for chocolate in Risdon Prison. Twenty years after Australia's worst massacre, his blond hair is gone, and so is his self-righteous smirk... but he is as evil as ever, showing no remorse for the crimes that shook the nation. He is just one of the killers in the rogues' gallery of Australia's Toughest Prisons: Inmates. You will meet the alleged hitman and undisputed hardman called 'Goldie', feared by both prisoners and guards alike. John Reginald Killick will tell you how he really escaped from Silverwater Jail in a helicopter and survived Pentridge Prison's notorious 'Hell Block'. And former Rugby League star Craig Field will tell you his incredible story of how one wrong pub punch landed him in prison limbo. From the rise of ISIS gangs, the lethal underground drug and tobacco trade, and the threat of contraband phones, to shiv fights, brawls and white-collar criminal beat-downs, the secret lives of Australia's most dangerous men will be on full display. Award-winning author and journalist James Phelps reveals the horror of life inside Australia's most notorious prisons, including Grafton, Cessnock, Pentridge, Minda, Risdon, Silverwater, and Lithgow.
- Full contents:
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- The inmate code
- 1. Introducing the inmates
- 2. Making a murderer
- 3. Reception, race and rape
- 4. Helicopters and Hollywood
- 5. The alleged hitman and undisputed hardman
- 6. [Craig's] Field of [broken] dreams
- 7. Holy terror
- 8. Smuggling and escapes
- 9. Horrible histories
- 10. Pedos, poofters and pricks
- Prison talk
- Select bibliography.
- Notes:
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- "Locked up in Pentridge, Cessnock, Minda, Goulburn, Silverwater, Risdon and Lithgow jails" -- Front cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-261)
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
- Inmates.
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2016
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