Roy Stephenson

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Roy Stephenson was an Australian reformist prison superintendent.

Born in 1911 on Thursday Island in Queensland he was the son of a Sergeant in the Thursday Island Police Force. He commenced work in the Queensland Prison Department in 1936. He was appointed to a string of superintendent positions in various prisons before taking over HM Prison Brisbane in 1971. He wrote about his memoirs in Nor Iron Bars a Cage.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Nor Iron Bars a Cage, J. R. Stevenson, Boolarong Publications, Brisbane, 1982, ISBN 0-908175-31-0


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