Inside Australia's most vicious jail

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Beginning his career as a criminal psychologist at Parramatta Jail in the late 70s, Dr Tim Watson-Munro was exposed to life's dark underbelly and he had to learn fast how to navigate this new world.
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@johnfromdownunder.4339 2 жыл бұрын

I was a criminal 25 years ago when I was herion addict and I was in juvenile prisons and at 18 I got 3 years in prison and I was in long bay Silverwater Maitland Parramatta Cessnock and muslwbrook. I can't spell because I left school at 11 and I was in the streets at 14 and a herion addict at 15 in Sydney and Cabramatta was the place to get herion there was so much and so cheap it was crazy. I was in prison when around 2000 there was no herion at all and it changed to ice but I got out and I never touched herion again prison scared me straight. All the violence and fear in prison is pretty hard core. And IV never been in any trouble since then either. I started reading philosophy and psychology and I found I was not dumb as I thought because I had some learning disorder at school and I couldn't read or write when I left school. But I studied the French existentialists and the French revolution and the Russian revolution and writers like Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and Jean Paul sartre to Socrates and Aristotle hume Locke all the great thinkers I read and I was so hungry for knowledge and wisdom because I came from a home with no dad so I had all those issues with fighting and violence but I changed at 24 when I was at a crossroads of going even harder into the prison system or going towards to right path of self analysis and understanding why I became a man that was so cynical and ful of hate and resentment that I used to think about killing people all the time when I was a kid. And I'm not sadistic at all it just came from feeling powerless over the environment I was in which was abusive. IV spent time with murderers and at Cessnock in my wing was the Sydney mutilator William McDonald he was the longest serving prisoner in NSW and I used to talk to him and Ivan Milat was at Maitland when I was there in 97/98 and he was feared a lot. He was huge as well then. Me now I'm just about 50 I can't relate to that young angry suicidal violent child essentially that is what I was. And it takes insight and the ability to truly look inside into the abyss of one's self to really understand what you are. I found that I am a good person but I had a bad childhood and that set me up to have a hatred of the world because all the adults in my live hurt me. So as a self defence mechanism I stopped careing and became hard to survive. And I wish I didn't because it's caused me great pain and suffering and iv hurt others and my family. But when I chose to change it was like seeing for the first time and I like my life. I'm ashamed of my past but it helped me get to where I am today. I think I have a lot of empathy for Victims of violence especially children.

@siluchesse1461 2 жыл бұрын

This post is excellent..and I can relate to much thats been said..Thanks for your honesty...

@bluestarinn 2 жыл бұрын

Good onya mate!

@AucklandBlonde 2 жыл бұрын

Great post. I wish you well.

@aaronmaytom6667 Жыл бұрын

Muswellbrook saint Heliers 😂

@smelly.ballbag751 2 жыл бұрын

Cool podcast cheers cobba

@aussieoskcar3215 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent

@Dan_Ben_Michael 2 жыл бұрын

I was at MRRC in 1999 and one of my pod mates had a son in the juvenile system and they brought him to MRRC to try scare him straight but it didn’t seem to work as it was more a family reunion. It was the only time I ever witnessed anything like that before or after.