Only in Tasmania.
Yesterday, at the reception prison in our capital city, a seige took place.
“10 inmates barricaded themselves into their accommodation unit, smashing closed-circuit surveillance cameras.”
“Negotiations included the delivery of 18 pizzas at 8pm, reminiscent of the 2005 Risdon Prison siege, which also ended when pizzas were delivered to inmates.”
The scary part is, this has happened before.
I suppose i should add, the seige went on for over five hours, all for a few pizza’s
People get pretty bored in prison, doesn’t surprise me.
If I was in that prison I would do it everyday. It doesn’t look like they are getting punished for it.
From The Shawshank Redemption
Red (narrating): We sat and drank with the sun on our shoulders and felt like free men. Hell, we could have been tarring the roof of one of our own houses. We were the lords of all creation. As for Andy - he spent that break hunkered in the shade, a strange little smile on his face, watching us drink his beer.
And that’s how it came to pass that on the second-to-last day of the job, the convict crew that tarred the plate factory roof in the spring of forty-nine wound up sitting in a row at ten o’clock in the morning drinking icy cold, Bohemia-style beer, courtesy of the hardest screw that ever walked a turn at Shawshank State Prison.
I find it really funny, but also really strange that this has happened twice.