IAN MEIKLE.
PENOLOGY hero Alexander Maconochie
, the Scotsman with the surname that tests sub-editors, gets a lot of undeserved bad press because our toxic prison is named after him.
Ian Meikle.
Which is a pity because the poor man died in Surrey, England, October 25, 1860.
More of Mr Mac in a moment, because this past week Winnunga Aboriginal Health Centre’s irrepressible CEO
Julie Tongs, in sharing this column’s call for a public enquiry into the shameful state of the jail, has suggested the AMC be renamed.
“It’s not fair to the reputation of Alexander Maconochie, one of the greatest penal reformers in history, to have his name associated with the prison,” she said.