Freedom

Veteran prison officer Steve Bergervoet reckons there's no one more trustworthy than a murderer, at least when it comes to inmates. During his three decades working in Victorian corrections, Steve focused on readying prisoners for release. This included getting prisoners to hand-rear injured birds …

Massacre

Former prison supervisor Tony Burley opens up on his years working alongside the Port Arthur massacre killer, how he survived being stabbed in the neck and a three-day prison siege.  

Murder

“I’ll get you.”  Prison officer Maria Costigan's niece Tanya Costigan was murdered in a savage domestic violence episode that saw her attacked while holding her newborn baby. Then, by chance, Maria ended up stationed at the same jail as her niece's killer. Then he started taunting her, whispering t…

Underbelly

There’s no more famous moment in prison history than the day Underbelly drug baron Carl Williams was murdered in Barwon Prison. Former Corrections Commissioner Bob Hastings was the guy in charge at the time – he recounts how he managed the enfolding fallout and reveals how it came to bear.

Evil

Beatrix ‘Trixie’ Bennett-Hiller is no ordinary grandma -- she spent years keeping the Anita Cobby and Janine Balding killers in order. She recounts the frightening time John Travers attempted to rape a rookie prison guard, the conflicting moment she had to save Ebony Simpson’s killer’s life and how…

Women

Jennifer Kaschau spent years managing some of Australia’s most dangerous women at Adelaide Women’s Prison. She dishes the dirt on old-lady killer Angelika Gavare, who boasted to inmates that police would never find her victim’s head or hands; and Michelle Burgess, a school mum turned calculating mu…

Drugs

It’s often said it’s easier to get drugs inside prison than out. Former Long Bay Gaol worker Alan Butler dishes the dirt on the inventive and shocking ways contraband is smuggled inside prison, his dealings with gangster Neddy Smith and the corruption he saw run rife during his decades in correctio…

Introducing On Guard

Australia’s prisons are notoriously private — inmates are forbidden from talking to the outside world without permission, and officers are silenced by airtight contracts. On Guard — an eight-part podcast — uncovers what really goes on behind bars as former correctional officers share shocking secre…

Monsters

Kerry Corbin spent years working at Queensland’s Wolston Correctional Centre, a “protection” prison dedicated to the sex offenders, paedophiles and child killers who wouldn’t survive in the mainstream prison population without being served a dose of “prison justice” by the other inmates.  He reveal…

Subscriber Exclusive: Episode 1 Out Tomorrow

Available to subscribers only, in episode one crime journalist Amelia Saw interviews Kerry Corbin about his time as a prison guard rubbing shoulders with paedophiles and sex offenders.  Australia’s prisons are notoriously private — inmates are forbidden from talking to the outside world without pe…