Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

Today, the court heard the man walked out of the minimum security
Cadell Training Centre just hours after being transferred from Mount
Gambier Prison on May 27 last year.
He had served 10 years of a 14-year non-parole period.
In sentencing, Judge Sydney Tilmouth said the man was found the next
morning about 10am "walking on a country road still wearing prison
apparel’.
The man then told officers he was ‘glad to be caught’.
The court has previously heard the search for the man included a dog
squad, police helicopter but it was a correctional services officer who
spotted him on the Blanchetown to Murbko Rd, about 5km from the
prison.
‘The motive for walking out stems from threats made in the jail system at
Mount Gambier and on that very morning in Cadell,’ Judge Tilmouth
said.
He said the man had been co-operating with authorities, passing on
information that ‘might be of use to them’ but said it was ‘unnecessary’ to
go into detail.
‘The threats were of such a nature and source that they were capable and
likely to be carried out and with serious consequences to your personal
safety,’ Judge Tilmouth said.
He said the man's transfer to Cadell had indicated he was ‘doing well’
before the escape but felt ‘too vulnerable and exposed to the threats’.
Judge Tilmouth imposed a 8-month head sentence with a 3-month nonparole
period due to the ‘unique circumstances’ of the man's escape.
In November 1996 the man and three other people lured Dr Goh, 52, to
an Elizabeth North home.
Intending to rob him, they bashed him with steering wheel lock, wrapped
the body in a blanket and dumped it on a country road.
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,26339992-5006301,00.html
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Deodorant in jail has a smell of suspicion
Miles Kemp, The Advertiser
November 26, 2009 10:25 p.m.
PRISONERS are resorting to old-fashioned smuggling techniques such
as hollowed-out books as they try to beat modern screening techniques
in the state's jails.
One smuggling attempt thwarted on Tuesday involved a homemade
tattoo kit packed into an empty Rexona-brand deodorant bottle, found
by prison guards at Mobilong.
Correctional Services Minister Tom Koutsantonis said officers were
aware of the growing trend to revert to historical smuggling strategies like
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