Yeah Wulfgar, I can honestly say the first days of my placement was a shocker, the prisoners as you say, all spotted us as fresh meat and bait on a hook, and I could feel all their eyes checking me out, as if I was a first time inmate, instead of a screw. I found D.Division was a lot more disciplined and strict and ordered and most of the inmates a bit better behaved, than B.Division, probably because it was a transit stepping stone for un-classified , un-sentenced remand prisoners. But when I got posted to B.Division, the first time, the Pentridge experience really hit me. The first day , set foot on B. Div, 1 and 2 tiers, the drug using prisoners all checked me out, to see if I could be bought off to bring them in dope. The first inmates I remember, that were off their faces were Frank Grandinetti, Shane Bartlett and Slav Percerep. The first thing Frank Grandinetti said to me was, Im a fuckin goose. Then he was called to the circle, then I was told by a senior to escort him to Chief Karen Lindstroms office and a experienced full time B.Division- Senior Kristov and Security Governor Paul Spadano were in the chiefs office as well. I had to wait outside the chiefs office, but would have liked to be a fly on the wall, on what they were all talking about. It was something to do with possession of drugs, as I watched Senior Kristov searching him, and remove something wrapped in foil from him! Frank Grandinetti started to fire up at them, then the security squad came and dragged him yelling and kicking, out the B.Division entrance gate down to the slot. I actually thought at the time, that the chief and seniors, were on the ball, and cracking down on the drug problem. But after this Shane Bartlett and Slav Percerep were totally of their faces, high as kites, so the B.Division screws seemed to turn a blind eye to some prisoners on or dealing the drugs. And I remember big Danny Gallagher, Daniel Hearny, Charlie Patty, Frankie Cako, Mick Devlin, Pee wee -Shane Tory, Kevin Gutsell, Keith Faure, Brett White and all the heavies, in a group at the end cells of 2 tier, smoking dope in bongs, quite openly, when the screws walked the tiers. This was my first day of Pentridge B.Division, and at the end of the day after lock-up, us new screws, including Ron Gobbet, who was new at this time also, we were giving a run down on the operations of B.Division, by Chief Karen Lindrom, who was a tough, butch operator and a Firm Senior called Terry Rodgers, who was later promoted to Governor of Security, I believe he was not corrupt. But you may know otherwise? Also Governor Paul Spadano was giving us new screws a talking to about Pentridge Security, and drug surveillance, what a joke, this was! I initially thought all these above senior Prison Officers were straight down the line. But I was then only a new in-experienced screw, and didn’t suspect at that time, what they were all really like?………………I still think, not defending any of the above senior Prison Officers, above but B.Division was a very hard Division to control and look after prisoners in. It held all the most rebellious type of inmates, when I was in there, all the hard cases like Chris Binse, Slav Percerep, Kevin Gutsell, Lennie Searle and those prisoners considered to violent or troublesome for the even the tough old H.M. Geelong and H.M. Bendigo jails!………And some of the screws that were full time in B.Divison , no doubt, had quite a good earner going on bringing in shit for the druggies!………………
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