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When I was charged for insurance fraud and arrested in Geelong, I was sentenced to three months in a minimum security prison.

Absolutely no one goes to prison for a $3K alleged fraud so Magistrate McGarvie put my life at risk because as a short bi-sexual man no one 'inside' would believe it!

I told Her Honour that whilst I was not guilty I would plead guilty and it was likely the worst decision of my life.

I was so annoying to the Governors and General Managers than within thirteen weeks I was moved from the Geelong Holding cells to the Melbourne Assessment Prison (MAP) where I was humiliated over my shoe size and the Liberal Party tattoo on my buttocks.

I was then moved to HM Prison Dhurrignhile where I was held down (not by in-mates but officers/screws) and raped.

I reported this to Victoria Police and thus was interviewed and given the best advice I've ever received: "We will open a case but say nothing until you are released or you will come out of here in a body bag".

I was then supposed to be moved to Beechworth Prison but arrived at Loddon Prisons. I was met by the GM on arrival and he advised that if he was to put me in a private cell I'd be dead because there are men in that prison whom had been waiting years to have their own cell and had no idea what I was doing there?

So the only way to keep me safe was to put me into the 'slot'.

Loddon Prisons only have punishment slots so no TV, one minute cold showers, access to visitors via a glass screen and after two weeks I was literally going insane.

I was then sent to the then newly opened Ravenhall Prison but after a staged event by the Officers to have me placed in the slot again, I was finally moved to HM Prison Marngoneet where I was finally treated with respect and monitored carefully.

As it turns out the Magistrate was a friend of my former ALP Opponent and a Member of the ALP but did not recuse herself.

So I went to prison for nothing!

It was an experience however which is why I wrote the book:  "Going to Prison? You need to read this book!"

The prison system in the State of Victoria is deemed one of the most corrupt in the Western World.

Even in the USA they have 'half way houses'. In Victoria, men whom have been in prison for twenty years are dropped off at a train station with a Myki Card (something they've never heard of) so they just end up homeless or breaking the law again to go back inside.