Sentenced Seven Years - George Brownrigg

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The prison guard dismissively calls out your name each night followed by a dispassionate, almost mechanical "locked down", a statement that reverberates with the screech and clang of worn metal bolting into place. Words struggle to convey how utterly dehumanising an experience life behind iron bars is.  Incarceration, however, is not a solitary sentence. Family is subjected to a far greater tragedy, abandoned as you are locked away from them. Knowing that you cannot embrace your family, or offer protection and support, is devastating. Any prison sentence, regardless of the term handed down by the courts, is for life.

Sentenced Seven Years is the true story of an ordinary family man who made a serious mistake in that he committed fraud. What makes this book so interesting is the fact that, unable to live with the guilt of what he had done, George Brownrigg approached the Fraud Squad and gave himself up.  What he did not expect was the severity of his sentence. The first part of his incarceration was at the infamous Fremantle Prison, now a tourist attraction!