Fremantle Women's Prison: Assistant Matron 1967 - 1970: edited transcript [oral history] / / interviewer: Erica Harvey

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AuthorWalker, Margaret, 1924 -; Harvey, EricaDescriptionEducated at Beaconsfield State School and Princess May High School -- Joined the Prisons Department as a widow in 1967 -- Training on the job at Fremantle Women's Prison -- Prison rules -- Prison routine -- Escort duty -- Mrs Iles the Matron -- Night shift -- Water bottles -- Summer and winter -- Night buckets -- Antiseptic baths -- Hygiene -- Aboriginal prisoners -- Short and long-term inmates -- Trusty long-term inmates with occupations -- Aboriginal prisoners from country areas -- Escorting a "leper" prisoner to the Fremantle Hospital -- Library day -- Prison meals -- Fruit -- Christmas and the Salvation Army -- Punishment -- The "black cell" -- Exercise -- Segregation duty -- Prisoners' work -- Prison laundry activities described in detail -- Visitors -- Sunday in prison -- Singing, painting and gardening -- Health issues -- Chest x-rays -- Pregnant inmates -- Inmate depression -- Medication -- Censorship of prisoners' mail -- Suicide -- Colin Campbell and improvements -- Function of prisonsImprintPerth, W.A. : J.S. Battye Library of West Australian History. Oral History Unit, 1995Collation[2 sound cassettes (120 min.)] + Transcript (iii, 58 leaves)Series Title Fremantle Prison oral history projectLanguageEnglishDate Published1995NotesTranscription by: Sheana Masterson. Access: Research: open -- Publication: written permission of Mrs Walker required. Original tapes and transcript held at the J.S. Battye Library of West Australian History. Oral History Unit -- Battye reference OH 2230/21. Copy of transcript only held in the Fremantle City Library Local History Collection at the time of cataloguing. Index includedDewey ClassOH/WALAudio FormatCassetteDigital ItemNo

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Barcode30118000229660LocationOral History Collection

PeopleMargaret WalkerSubjectFremantle Prison - Officials and EmployeesFremantle Prison - Conservation and restoration CollectionOral History Collection

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