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Brian Coghlan
Former Port Phillip Prison officer and superintendent who spent 26 years working with Victoria's most notorious killers, guest on the Naked City podcast.
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May 5, 2026
Don’t play god, don’t mess with their mail – in prison with the worst of the worst
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John SilvesterHOST
So he went in as a piece of vermin, and yet in the end, and he's nearly eighty, isn't he?
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John SilvesterHOST
But, um, y-you were saying it, it becomes very, very difficult to try and manage people because the authority of prison officers is eroded.
Episode 354 - Part 3 - Brian Coghlan
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7:01Brian CoghlanGUEST
I speak to my mates in the government system and they can't believe the rigmarole that we used to have to go through at Port Phillip.
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7:10Brian CoghlanGUEST
We got to the stage where we'd call in the government to move a prisoner from his cell if he wouldn't move because we were not too scared to touch them but The amount of fines and things that went wrong because we had all the litigious prisoners that have to go through G4S or Group 4 as it started off as before the government really got involved with all their legal issues.
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