MAXIMUM SECURITY The Inside Story of Australia's Toughest Gaols

Softcover. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED. Maximum security - the toughest classification in the Australian prison system - exerts a powerful fascination. Housing the nation's worst criminals, the so-called 'intractables', these facilities are settings of violence and despair. Just how savage are these gaols within gaols, and what's it like to be incarcerated in them? From the brutal regime of colonial Norfolk Island to the sterile cruelty of Jika Jika and Katingal, the author takes us through the history of these sinister places of punishment, which have been home to notorious figures like Mark 'Chopper' Read, Brenden Abbott and Russell 'Mad Dog' Cox. A gripping and informed account of the infamous criminals, gang wars, riots, corruption, great escapes, brutal bashings and murders - and occasional acts of kindness and heroism - that go on in these hidden worlds behind bars. Illus., Timeline, Notes, Selected Bibliog. and Index. 376pp. trade size softcover. From the library of former Det. Chief Supt. Leonard 'Nipper' Read. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY JAMES MORTON TO 'NIPPER' READ. Nr. F. with no creasing to covers.