Abstract:
I’m leaning against a jarrah post at the old Fremantle Prison and listening to a lively young man tell us the story of an eight-year-old boy who was sentenced to three days’ jail for theft. The boy swore at one of the guards, who proceeded to tie him to the post, take a switch of birch and hit him three times until the little boy’s bottom bled. That little boy spent most of the next thirty-three years in and out of the prison, re-offending. The year was 1872.
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