Crime by Amelia Saw
Premium Content It was the three-day hostage siege that began with a stab wound to the neck and ended with a delivery of 15 hot pizzas. Such is the bizarre and dangerous life of a prison officer at notorious Risdon Prison. The neck in question belonged to prison supervisor Tony Burley, and the pizzas arrived as payment for the release of corrections officer, Ken Hannah, who had been held hostage for 41 hours as angry prisoners ran rampage. Now retired from corrections, Burley is finally able to talk publicly about the dramatic 2005 siege, which remains one of the longest and most dangerous in the troubled prison s history.
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