Grosey's Messages

I did voluntary prison chaplaincy while at Glen Innes. We had a prisoner home for day release to get him ready for release 3 weeks later. After going back he and two mates decided to break out. They walked 50 km to Glen Innes but trod on a tiger snake and had to take him to hospital where they were rearrested. He wrote me a letter from Goulbourn maximum security prison. They had intended to walk to our house to give themselves up, as all three didn't trust themselves in the community (all three were due for release for stupid stuff they did when they went on either alcohol or drug benders; shooting up all the shop windows in Inverell etc). They thought if they gave themselves up to me they would get to be sent back to the minimum security prison (it was so slack that they could take holidays in the bush for a couple of days and no one would notice). They didn't. And they weren't happy.