(Illegal) Hot Water in the Cell
'He took a roll of toilet paper, unrolled and loosely rerolled a bunch of it, then tucked the bottom up through the hole in the middl...
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Prison-Made Tattoo Machines
Some of the most popular objects in the Boggo Road Gaol Museum collection were the 1980s prisoner-made tattoo machines, or 'b...
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Arthur 'Slim' Halliday: The Houdini of Boggo Road
Arthur 'Slim' Halliday rose to prominence in the 1940s as Boggo …
Prison Slang
A louse, known as a 'booby' in 19th-century slang. boob Prison. …
The Hanging Process
The standard rituals of executions at Boggo Road had a precise, theatrical qual…
Screw!
Image: S. Gage SCREW. Apart from other well-known meanings, this is a slang wo…
A Damned Good Flogging
‘BRING BACK FLOGGING!’ We hear it often enough, and there would be plenty of vo…
Escapes from Boggo Road
100 Not Out: A Century of Escapes: The Statistics The Elusive Pimpernels …
Boggo Through the Decades
The Boggo Road prison reserve changed frequently over the years, and this can …
Hanging in Queensland
Queensland was - believe it or not - the first part of the British Empire to a…
The Toilet Tubs
The No.2 Division cellblocks were built in 1903 and the cells had no toilet…
