Parole
Would you be willing to inspect the house of a convicted criminal? Have a one-on-one conversation with a parolee about their past trauma? In the sixth...
Behind the Walls
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Behind the Walls is a ground-breaking six-part podcast series that for the first time takes listeners on a journey into NSW prisons and parole offices. Podcast host Michael Duffy, a crime author and former journalist, spent six months recording the interviews at 11 correctional centres and four Community Corrections offices, where staff manage offenders on community orders. Thirty correctional officers from prisons including Bathurst, Lithgow, Cessnock, Cooma and Long Bay share their stories of what really happens when people are sentenced to prison.
The Blue and the Green
A prison officer reveals how an inmate saved his life from a brutal bashing by a criminal gang. In the fifth episode of Behind the Walls: The Blue and...
Rehabilitation
A prison governor becomes good mates with a former inmate and even gives a speech at his wedding. In the fourth episode of Behind the Walls: Rehabilit...
Daily Life
If you treat inmates like animals, they’ll act like animals. What happens when they get out of jail? Would you want them living in your suburb? In the...
Security
Would you believe that some inmates actually ask to be sent to Australia’s toughest and most regimented prison, Supermax? In the second episode of Be...
The Job
Meet the prison officers who manage Australia’s worst criminals and you’ll soon learn why they hate being called ‘guards’. In this first episode of Be...
Behind the Walls Trailer
Listen in to the trailer for Behind the Walls, a ground-breaking six-part podcast series that for the first time takes listeners on a journey into NSW...