It was fear that stopped Dave McGarry from re-offending when he was finally released from Maitland Gaol. Locked up from age nineteen, McGarry remembers how âeveryone here was someone to be scared of⌠at least sixty per cent of the guys⌠all carried weaponsâ. Improvised stabbing weapons, known as âshivsâ in âcriminal slangâ since at […]
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