Boggo

In this episode of Boggo Jack and Sue discuss an incredible story published in the Courier Mail newspaper on 24 January 1991. Journalist Madonna King reported on an ongoing Criminal Justice Commission investigation into allegations of a call girl racket being run out of Brisbane Women’s Correctional Centre by its matron! Boggo Road’s former Emergency Squad Chief told the public

Hear from Jack Sim, Director of Historic Australia about the upcoming temporary closure of Boggo Road Gaol with our last day of tours is the 27th March.

In this episode of Boggo Jack and Sue discuss the shocking revelations of the Truth newspaper in 1962. Photographs smuggled out of the prison revealed a fact denied by authorities – the existence of wire cages to hold dangerous and troublesome prisoners – including notorious Slim Halliday. Even women were caged!

In this episode of Boggo Jack interviews Max who was a prisoner in Brisbane Prison in the late 1950s. He recalls his involvement in a mutiny which saw prisoners scale onto rooftops and barrack themselves in their cells. Those involved were punished severely. A fascinating insight into a serious situation here at Boggo Road 65 years ago from someone who lived it!

In today’s episode Gaol Director Jack Sim and Sue Olsen continue the story of John Hobson. We discover that the time bomb was ready to explode and sadly an officer was to bear the brunt of his rage.

Psychopath John Hobson should have been in the maximum-security institute for the criminally insane at Sandy Gallop mental asylum near Ipswich, not Brisbane Prison. Officers and Prisoners alike knew thathe was time bomb aggressive and prone to violent episodes. In today’sepisode Gaol Director Jack Sim and Sue Olsentalk about the life of John Hobson and whatbrought him to Brisbane

Jack Sim Gaol Director and Sue Olsen get back behind bars at Boggo Road Gaol. For the first timesince the start of the pandemic we have been able to get back behind bars. This episode is a welcome back episode and we fill you in on what’s been happening behind the irongates of Boggo Road Gaol.

40 years ago, Dean King left Boggo Road Gaol for the last time. Today, he returns to share his story with Gaol Director Jack Sim and to launch his self-published biography ‘King Hit’. Dean was a prisoner in the tumultuous 1980s and witnessed some of the biggest events in Boggo Road Gaol history. However, time spent locked up in Boggo Road Gaol is only part of his remarkable sto

Tuesday, The 17th of September 2019 marks 60 years since notorious cat-burglar and jail-breaker Arthur Halliday, better known as Slim, made his last major escape attempt. Halliday, already a house-hold name for two successful escapes in the 1940s, was serving life imprisonment in Boggo Road Jail for the dreadful murder of a taxi-driver at Currumbin in 1952. The victim had been kill

Cyril James MacIntosh was perhaps one of the most frequent prisoners in gaols all over the eastern side of Australia. His remarkably habitual career as a celebrated bogus doctor graced Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. Known by at least seventeen aliases and with at least forty charges to his name, the question remains: was he simply mischievous,