There’s a strange eeriness in the air as Woman’s Day walks through the doors of Wellington Correctional Centre in the NSW Central West.
Home to some of Australia’s most dangerous prisoners, the infamous jail has seen riots, fires, sieges and even a mouse plague. But not today.
“When it’s quiet, that’s when you know something is about to happen,” services and programs officer Margie, 58, tells us as we tour the cell blocks inside the men’s maximum-security block.
Despite the bustle of green-clad