A former Barwon inmate told the Herald Sun while crime texts had a way of getting inside, books with stories of local crime figures were among the hardest to smuggle in. “All government prisons ban ...

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Victorian crime books and raunchy magazines are among the toughest to smuggle into the state’s maximum security prisons. See what’s on the blacklist. Books with violent imagery or filled with ...

Kaushal’s third book, “Murder in Victorian Dayton: The Tragic Story of Bessie Little,” tells a story of deception and murder in late 1800s era Dayton. “I feel like it really shows what ...

“All government prisons ban any Victorian crime books obviously because they contain stories about some of the people who are locked up at the time,” he said. “But this does not mean they ...