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Australian True Crime

Women of Corrections - The Governor Faith Slatcher

Australian True Crime

Bravecasting

True Crime

4.51K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Faith Slatcher is the Governor of Goulburn Correctional Complex in New South Wales but you’ll probably be more familiar with the part of this prison known as the Goulburn Supermax which manages high risk inmates including Australia’s “Pablo Escobar” Mostafa Baluch and Bassam Hamzy, boss of the violent crime gang Brothers 4 life. There’s also the never to be released inmates there like Malcolm George Baker who murdered seven people on NSW’s central coast in a spree killing in 1992 and Lindsay Robert Rose, killer of five people over a decade from 1984 to 1994.

 

So, does a corrections officer, particularly one so high up in the ranks as Faith, have to be as tough as the people she’s responsible for?

 

If listening to this episode has got you thinking about a career in corrections you can go to the Corrective Services NSW website or the corrections department in your state.

 

You might want to go back and listen to some of our previous episodes about life in prisons. 

 

The Killing Fields: Inside Australia’s most evil prison

 

Prison Officer in Danger 

 

Birds Eye View 

 

Pentridge Confidential 

 

Mr Ordinary Goes to Jail 

 

Inside Australia’s Hardest Women’s Jails 

 

Self-mutilator Gary David 

 

If you have been affected by anything discussed in this episode you can contact:

 

Lifeline  on 13 11 14

 

13 YARN on 13 92 76 (24/7 crisis support phone line for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people)

 

Thanks for listening, we’ll be back next week.

 

CREDITS:

 

Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram here  

 

Co-Host: Emily Webb. You can find her on Instagram here 

 

Guests: Faith Slatcher, Governor, Goulburn Correctional Complex

 

Producer/Editor: Matthew Tankard

 

Executive Producer: Jacqueline Tonks

 

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Email the show at team@smartfella.com.au

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July,

0:04.3

and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already.

0:07.4

Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show.

0:10.3

Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests,

0:15.2

our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bazzina in

0:19.9

Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly.

0:25.9

The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded.

0:38.6

They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging.

0:47.1

The following podcast contains content of a graphic violent nature and is not suitable for children.

0:54.0

You know I think people want too much.

0:57.0

Let's take this person who committed some terrible crimes and done really, really bad things

1:02.0

and cure them.

1:03.6

It doesn't, it's not like that.

1:05.9

It's about modifying behavior.

1:08.1

It's not a five minute game.

1:09.6

We're playing the long game.

1:10.7

So we're playing by years sometimes and over time and over years I've

1:15.8

watched people change. It's incremental but it happens. The guests you'll hear from in this episode is in charge of some of the toughest people in Australia.

1:31.6

We say tough because when you hear the names of some of these people

1:34.6

you'll realize how intense her job is. Faith Flattcher is currently the governor of

1:39.9

Galbine Correctional Complex in New South Wales, but you'll probably be more familiar with the part of this prison known as the Goldbren Supermax, which manages high-risk inmates, including Australia's Pablo Escobar, Mustafa Beloosh, and Bassam-Humsie,

1:56.7

boss of the violent crime gang brothers for life.

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