Bøger af Larry Denis Campbell

There has been surprisingly little written about H.M. Brisbane Prison, which was better known to one all a 'Boggo Road Gaol', that is, from the perspective of male prisoners. The Real Boggo Road provides an all-too-rare account of life inside the Queensland prison system of the 1960's from the beginning to the end of an era, culminating in the eventual closure of the notorious Boggo Road system, and of its caged and underground incarceration. It is the view of many that harsh intimidating treatment and recidivisim go hand in hand, but in this first of many writings by Larry Campbell we discover an insight that will be noticed in the area of penology, criminology, as well as social and welfare studies. It, is the authors view, through historical recall, and although his many writings are written with sincerity, they may tend to offend those who have lived and worked behind the walls of such institutions. He makes no apology.

'STRANGERS BEHIND BARS, TEENAGE CONVICTS MORPHING INTO MEN, RAISED BY THE SYSTEM, PROVIDING NEITHER LOVE NOR WISDOM.' Predators, good men and bad describes past 'Prisoners' through the eyes of a young prisoner in the 20th Century. Brutal abuse of the young, thirst, hunger, trauma, hatred violence and revenge, were all a part of the Boggo Road Inmates life, in the corrupt 60's 70's and 80's. This is Boggo Road Gaol as you've never heard it described before. In these writings with such force, Larry Campbell pens a compelling story of personal experience that must be told. Only with the truth, can we ever acquire change in our ever expanding communities. This is volume two.

This serious tale is about prisoners who had once passed on through those gates of Boggo Road Gaol. Most were boys who fought the system of intimidation and of poverty, while only a few of them married, had children, or lived for very long in the world that taught them to be out and out criminals. One thing is certain, each profile, is quite a lot different to the next one, while no man can say that they had returned out of a Gaol a better persona than that youth who entered those gates of Brisbane's Old Boggo Road Gaol. This is volume 1.

In the late 1960s, twenty-six-year-old Larry Denis Campbell was convicted of theft-a minor charge under Australian law. How, then, does he end up spending two years locked away in the Boggo Road Gaol, a prison notorious for physical and sexual violence? How can a deaf man even be convicted on the basis of fifteen trumped-up confessions? And most importantly, what does Campbell's experience say about justice in Queensland, Australia? The Dream Breaker exposes the multilayered, systematic corruption that plagues Queensland's judiciary and penal systems. While in prison, Campbell lives through the debilitating psychological and physical effects of incarceration while personally fighting for his own cause, bravely taking on an establishment that shelters dishonest law enforcement and government officials while ordinary citizens pay the price. Now in his seventies, Campbell has spent his life educating himself about criminology, human rights, and social justice and has become a voice for desperately needed prison and penal system reform. Through his memoir, readers will discover the truth about his experience and realize his ordeal is far from unusual. In Queensland, twisted justice is shockingly common, and Larry Denis Campbell fights to reverse a disturbing trend.