Prisoner

degree.

Prisoner will rise and face the court.

He's

talking to you,

Mac.

What? Prisoner will rise.

Judge, get up, Rogan.

Mark Street.

In the remote north, in famine-stricken Turkestan, and in dreary villages and townships in the center, there are living persons who have been wrested from their dear ones, and are without food, without the rudimentary amenities of civilization, and under the shadow of death.

The words are from the appeal issued by the Berlin Society for the Aid of Political Prisoners and Exiles in Russia.

Already I've spoken of the Portomensk camp on the shores of the Arctic Ocean as a place where their exiles have been in process of being dispatched from Moscow since the close of last year, 1922.

And apropos, I quote many of the following concerning the camp's life conditions.

They can fall ill in it.

They can die or go mad in it.

without the least obstacle being placed in their way by the administration which would not for a moment think of interfering with matters so pure purely personal and private and whenever they seek an interview with the commandant he replies to them with sheer effrontery what affects the prisoners most is not the actual conditions of the place but the knowledge that always for eight months of the year life will have to be dragged out in complete isolation from the rest of the world Prisoners falling dangerously ill or losing their reason are given no medical attendance, but must go on living with the rest in the cramped, noisy cells.

Seldom it is that letters dispatched from the island reach their destination.

No, like, found for...

Not Prisoner mo- I, I don't think I'm a Prisoner moment.

That was one of the strangest things I've ever seen.

That's so much-

this? She'll end up skinnier than Vinegar Tits.

Remember Vinegar Tits? From Prisoner.

Oh, from

Prisoner.

Jeez.

There's a big name in the pen.

Village Headman, Crowd Member, Date Seller, Lecturer, read by Lee Meredith.

Babylonian Woman, Prisoner's Wife, Imogen's Mother, Dye Master, read by Starling Reader.

Imogen, read by Zoe Trang.

Captain of the Jail, Mr. Rosenbaum, The Old Sailor, Prison Guard, Felice, Mr. David DeVant, read by Michael Jarvis.

They consist chiefly of third-rate, badly written religious books, so-called, written apparently for children, and utterly unsuitable for children or for anyone else.

Prisoners should be encouraged to read, and should have whatever books they want, and their books should be well chosen.

At present, the selection of books is made by the prison chaplain.

Under the present system, a prisoner is only allowed to see his friends four times a year, for twenty minutes each time.

So they haven't told her who the other... housewives will be whether it's any from the past coming back I'm surprised Jean has actually agreed to do it without knowing that because she's very very cluey and has a great attention to detail but she signed on for it so she was the kind of big star attraction today to be unveiled at this Foxtel launch for what's coming up next year and I suppose the other interesting one is talk about the show that keeps on giving.

They're doing a spin-off of Wentworth, which, of course, in effect, was like a spin-off or a sequel of Prisoner.

And this is Wentworth Halfway House, where women who get out of prison go to live in a halfway house, and they've got Rachel Griffiths on board for a key role.

So that's pretty impressive.

That was actually very popular, wasn't it, Wentworth? My wife was addicted to watching that.

It was full on.

I mean, Prisoner back in the day was very confronting television.

But you look at it now and it all seems a bit sort of camp and funny and silly and over the top.