Dark Tourism and the Celebrity Prisoner - [API] Network

Notes to pp 9–16
59 Inmate Rothenburg cited in ibid., p 100.
60 Greg Bearup, ‘On the inside no-one can hear you scream’, Good Weekend, 19 October 2002;
Read interview in Dominik, op. cit.
61 Read, From the Inside, op. cit., pp 65–7; also Read in Dominik, op. cit. Former Pentridge prison
officer Vaughn Ruddick confirms Read’s value as an inmate-management asset, although he
does not explicitly corroborate Read’s account regarding weapons. Interview 7 March 2001.
62 Heilpern, op. cit. p 68; Frank Dunbaugh, brief to US Supreme Court in Farmer v Brennan
(1993), at ‘SPR — Stop Prisoner Rape’ website. ;
Katy Richmond, ‘Fear of homosexuality and modes of rationalisation in male prisons’,
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology: Symposium on Deviance, Crime and Legal
Process, vol 14, no 1, February 1978, pp 51–7.
63 Dunbaugh, op. cit.
64 Heilpern, op. cit., pp 5–6, 44.
65 Richmond’s 1978 study was the first of its kind in Australia; virtually nothing substantive was
then undertaken until Heilpern’s investigation in the 1990s. Richmond, op. cit.
66 Public awareness of prison sexuality, where it does exist, is in fact skewed toward a tacit
acceptance that rape is an ‘appropriate’ part of the punishment of jail. Heilpern, op. cit., p 86.
67 I make no claim that the (re-)invention is consciously conspiratorial but is more a concordance
of individuals’ and stakeholder groups’ motivations.
68 Wilson, ‘Representing Pentridge’, op. cit.; idem, ‘Relics’, op. cit.
69 Andrew Rule, ‘The inside stories from a man who should know’, Age, 1 August 2002; Goya
Bennett, ‘Prison Yields its Terrible Past’, Moreland Community News, 2 July 2002.
70 Wilson, ‘Relics’, op. cit.; also, for example, ‘Minardi boss in clink in a blink’, Hume Leader
(Moreland edn), 9 March 2004.
71 Catherine Birmingham [dir.], Pentridge: Some Ghosts and Memories from the Big House,
videorecording, Pentridge Village Pty Ltd, 2000.
72 ibid.
73 Author’s personal observation; also Wilson, ‘Relics’, op. cit.
74 Ruddick, op. cit.; interview, Pat Burchell (former tour guide, Pentridge), 24 January 2001.
75 See Triple M website.
76 Goffman, Asylums, op. cit., p 44.
77 J Smith, op. cit.; interview, Maureen Hoffman (former Pentridge educator), 27 February 2001.
78 For example, Boggo Road (Brisbane), Pentridge, and Fremantle Gaol (former guards at the latter
stated categorically that ‘it never went on here’, even when I pointed out instances of explicit
and violent homosexual cell graffiti).
79 For example, Rule, op. cit.
80 Alison Leibling, Suicides in Prison, Routledge, London, 1992, p 84.
81 ibid., p 63.
82 Richard Harding cited in Leonie Lamont and Bruce Tobin, ‘Prison suicides in Victoria top other
states’, Age, 22 September 1990.
83 Richard Harding, Review of Suicide and Suicide Attempts in the Custody of the Office of
Corrections, Victoria: Report, 1990; also Lamont and Tobin, op. cit.
84 ‘Chopper’ Read, Get Your Ears Off, Import Generic, 1998.
85 Lennon and Foley, op. cit., passim.
The Tempest
Angela Campbell
This article is based on the production of The Tempest directed by Simon Phillips and produced
by the Queensland Theatre Company performed in Brisbane on 23 September 1999.
1 Helen Gilbert and Joanne Tompkins, Post-Colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics,
Routledge, London 1996, p 110.
2 Rene de Obaldia, Exobiographie: Memoires [Bernard Grasset, Paris, 1993] cited in John Ralston
Saul, On Equilibrium, Penguin Books, Canada, 2001, p 244.
3 Simon Phillips, personal interview, 16 November 2000.
4 Heiner Muller, ‘Fatzer +- Keuner’, in Margaret Herzfel-Sander (ed.), Continuum, New York,
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