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Corrective Services NSW training academy at Brush Farm in Eastwood is celebrating its 30th anniversary with Daily Telegraph journalist Mitchell Van Homrigh taking a tour of the training facilities as well as Dawn De Loas Correctional Centre at Silverwater. Inmates work inside one of the wings at the Dawn De Loas Correctional Centre. Picture: Toby Zerna

Prisoners’ hottest reads: top 10 books read in jail

With COVID lockdowns banning visitors — and stopping illegal drugs entering cells — prisoners turned to murder and romance to escape the boredom of 2020.

PodcastTrue Crime

EMBARGO - DO NOT USE WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM NETWORK PIC DESK - FOR ON GUARD PACKAGE - NO THE AUSTRALIAN/NO THE WEST AUSTRALIAN- NO NEWS.COM - NO SKY NEWS - EP8 -- BIRDS OF PREY , Steve Bergerboet prides himself on helping dangerous sex offenders, murderers and criminals integrate back into society after their time in prison. He worked in minimum security prisons across Victoria, where there’s no walls and no barbed wire., He introduced the Raptor release program which saw inmates tasked with hand-rearing birds and releasing them, just as they too were preparing to spread their wings and leave prison life. Picture: Nicole Cleary

Why sex offenders are the sneakiest prisoners

Sex offenders might be “easygoing” behind bars, but former prison officer Steve Bergervoet says they can’t be underestimated. Warning: Graphic

PodcastNational

How I got ‘Chopper’ Read nude behind bars

Former prison officer Steve Bergervoet was just a rookie when he managed to get Mark ‘Chopper’ Read naked on his first day of work. Warning: Graphic

ExclusiveNational

MDMA, ‘magic mushrooms’ to treat PTSD, anxiety

One hundred Australian healthcare professionals will be trained and ready to treat patients with party drugs such as MDMA and magic mushrooms.

True Crime

Prison slang quiz: What’s a peter thief?

Think you’ve got what it takes to talk like an inmate? As part of our new On Guard prison podcast series, we put your knowledge of jailhouse lingo to the test.

National

Prison slang quiz: What’s chicken soup?

Think you’ve got what it takes to talk like an inmate? As part of our new On Guard prison podcast series, we put your knowledge of jailhouse lingo to the test.

PodcastTrue Crime

EMBARGO - DO NOT USE WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM NETWORK PIC DESK - FOR ON GUARD PACKAGE - NO THE AUSTRALIAN/NO THE WEST AUSTRALIAN- NO NEWS.COM - NO SKY NEWS - Retired corrections supervisor at Risdon Prison Complex, Tony Burley in his days in uniform. Picture: Courtesy of Tony Burley OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Stabbed in the neck: How 15 pizzas stopped a prison riot

A former prison officer has revealed how a three-day hostage siege in Tasmania ended with a delivery of 15 hot pizzas. WARNING: Graphic material

PodcastTrue Crime

Massacre monster trades sex for chocolates

A prison officer who worked with Martin Bryant has revealed the serial killer is just a “big baby” and a nobody within the jail hierarchy. WARNING: Graphic

PodcastTrue Crime

On Guard: New prison podcast

On Guard – a new podcast – features former correctional officers sharing shocking secrets from the frontline of working with some of Australia’s most infamous criminals.

PodcastCrime in Focus

‘Nearly s***t myself’: How I faced my niece’s killer

Former prison officer Maria Costigan has recalled the moment she came face-to-face with the man who murdered her niece. WARNING: Graphic

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