I supervised many protection prisoners in H.M.Loddon Prison from 1990 to 1994 , like Peter Dupas, Colin McKane, Peter Vaitos, Peter McEvoy, Peter Keogh, Kevin Byrne, Edward Tappe, Adrian Edwards-Bayley , George Pevitt, some of the more well known creeps, mostly serial sex offenders and all off these crims were a protected species , and have reoffended. A hand was never laid on any them or a angry word spoken to them, at least at H.M.Loddon Prison and the Adult Parole Board at the time chaired by Justice Frank Vincent, made it his duty, to talk with prisoners he was considering to grant parole. The protection inmates were listened to, for their grievances and Prison Officer complaints daily by the Chief Prison Officers, and all Prison Officers worked in teams, each watching over the others behaviour, so a bash was unheard of, in my time at Loddon, which was far different from Pentridge Prison. As many of these rock spiders, rapists, serial sex offenders and so on were nearing the end of their prison sentences , the Prison Officers at Loddon. had a duty of care over all inmates and had to be seen as and act as a professional, firm but fair and real nice to them, show them respect, whether they be rapists , child sex offenders or murderers , we could not be judgmental towards them, and even had to help them prepare for their upcoming release, reintergration programs, all that do-gooder stuff, so any prejudice , bad word or wrong physical or mental treatment to these inmates, was dealt with immediately by the Senior and Chief Prison Officers and a former strict H.M.Pentridge Governor Clive Williams , who was in charge of H.M.Loddon Prison and ran a strict ship, where he had to be saluted to in military strictness . At H.M.Loddon Prison , prisoners rights were a priority and for Prison Officers that did not like this then relatively new corrections idea of Unit Management approach to prisoners welfare and rehabilitation , then it was on your bike, go and work in H.M.Barwon or leave the prison service.
Which is what I did in 1995 ! I did not fit into this Unit Management Mother style of corrections. I was not harsh or anything, but I wasn’t a walk over either, saw the crims as having to many rights, but that’s just me, I was always firm but fair and listened to prisoners, even though I knew what they had done to be in jail. But I had a duty to still treat them with respect, whether I liked it or not. and that can be quite hard, if you can not see through their often nasty horrible crimes they had committed. As a screw I never laid a hand on any prisoners at Pentridge or Club Loddon, like some did, but there was a incident of two former H.Division Prison Officers, that transferred to H.M.Loddon , that did bash and assault a protection inmate, and were quite mean, tough screws, they were investigated for it , but as they were popular amongst the Governors, they were never charged and were both over time promoted to very senior ranks in the Victorian Prison Service. I wont mention the Officers names, because they both know me well from Pentridge and Loddon and are now in very senior positions as Governor’s at a modern new rehabilitation prison,still in the Victorian Prison service and of very high rank. And as they are also former H.Division screws, they both very much hates my guts, since I left the Prison Service, and live in the same town as me , to them Im just a low life Dog, Rat, Whistleblower , so it would not be legally smart of me to talk about them here!… and their sons and daughters and misses are also now Prison Correction Officers as well. They are already aware that I write on this AC site, so I will leave it at that. I am surprised they haven’t already attacked me on social media here. They would be aware of Aussie Criminals. But their are also many other former Prison Officer, that have never commented on here either, so stuffed if I know. But I have got nothing to lose now anyway , my prison career was stuffed and destroyed long ago. So I talk very freely now!…Fuck em all!
I think Port Phillip Prison is still hard on prisoners, but only a current serving inmate could confirm this for sure!… Hope this was of some help to your question!…