Behind the Walls

Department of Communities and Justice

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.

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Behind the Walls

Episodes (7)

Apr 14, 2021 Parole
Apr 7, 2021 The Blue and the Green
Mar 31, 2021 Rehabilitation

Behind the Walls

Apr 14, 2021
32¼ minutes
30 MB

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 and final episode of Behind the Walls: Parole, crime author and former journalist Michael Duffy meets parole officers including Grace Wong, who has one of the most challenging jobs in corrections. “We do get a lot of clients who walk through the door with histories of childhood trauma, sexual abuse, exposure to violence at an early age and domestic violence,” Grace says. “I th...

Behind the Walls

Parole

Department of Communities and Justice

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