Westbrook: Surviving Australia's Most Sadistic Reformatory by William Stokes

Westbrook: Surviving Australia's Most Sadistic Reformatory by William Stokes

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781405040075
Author: William Stokes
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
Place: Sydney NSW
Year: 2010
Format: Paperback
Pages: 432 pages
Period: 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.

Towards the close of the 1950s, 14-year-old William Stokes was sentenced to Westbrook Farm Home for Boys after committing a series of petty crimes.

At that time, Westbrook was the most feared institution for boys in the whole of Queensland - a brutal tyranny ruled by a sadistic warden, where boys laboured in the fields from dawn to dusk and where flogging was the answer for any misdemeanour, however minor. Inmates were systematically demeaned and cowed, in a regimen designed to break them.

Stokes' story of his years at Westbrook catalogue the horrors endured by children and young adults at the hands of the authorities, and how they managed to survive. Stokes also reveals the damaged and broken lives that resulted, and how the repercussions continue to be felt by the boys and by society long after their original sentences were served.

Brutally honest, disturbing and compelling, Westbrook will both inform and outrage readers. (publisher blurb)

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