Dame Phyllis Frost Centre

To mother, to mother

And that gorgeous song was part of a First Nations broadcast, live NAIDOC Week prison broadcast, hearing from First Nations women inside Dame Phyllis Frost Correctional Centre, India Park.

You can hear the full three-hour broadcast and other prisons and inmates we visited across NAIDOC Week at 3cr.org.au. And if you're a First Nations person and some of those discussions raise concern or you need somebody to talk to, you can call the mob-only support line 13 Yarn, which is 13 9276, or Lifeline, which is open to all listeners on 13 11 14.

We're going to go straight into our next interview now.

And at the start of the show, we had two segments that were replays from 3CR's live NAIDOC Week prison broadcasts.

Both of them originally broadcast on the 6th of July.

They were live from the Dame Phyllis Frost Correctional Centre in Deer Park.

That's all for today.

We're going to get to that.

But I want to talk to you about what life in a women's prison is like because you said that you were at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre.

What's that? The Deer Park Maximum Security Centre.

Tell us about your experiences in jail because I want to get to – rehabilitation, you were saying that when you were in the police holding cells and you were there for a month because you didn't apply for bail, that you were shown kindness from people who didn't know you and they were heroin addicts.

Last topic I want to talk to you about today, it's causing a lot of discussion in households around Australia, and that is Erin Patterson, who, as we know, was jailed for life after poisoning four members of her estranged husband's family with death cap mushrooms.

And she has spent most of the last three years in the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre's restrictive Gordon unit because of the notorious nature of her crimes.

Now, there are human rights organisations now saying that...

That is inhumane to have her in solitary, only having an hour of fresh air a day, no contact with anybody.

Here she is serving a life sentence for a triple murder.

The 51-year-old has reportedly started the $134 a month weight loss injections while held in solitary confinement at the maximum security Dame Phyllis Frost Centre.

Now, $134 a month, that is...

I don't know where they're getting their ozempic from, but I'm telling you now, as someone who has temporarily used this drug...

[pensive music] She's sent to the prison, Dame Phyllis Frost Prison-

Yeah, she-

For what? More than two years.

shiftyYeah, well, the, the, that's what eventually was found, that, you know, the Court of Appeal, she goes off to Dame Phyllis Frost-

Yeah, tell us what happened to this poor woman.

She's sent to the prison, Dame Phyllis Frost Prison-

Yeah, she-

... for what, more than two years?