Westbrook

Stokes, William
Westbrook

Westbrook

Stokes, William

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In 1958 fourteen-year-old William Stokes was sentenced to Westbrook Farm Home for Boys after committing a few trivial offences. At that time, Westbrook was the most feared institution for young offenders in Australia - a brutal tyranny ruled by a sadistic superintendent, where boys laboured in the fields from dawn to dusk and where bare-skin floggings were the answer to any misdemeanour, however minor. Inmates were systematically humiliated and degraded in a regimen designed to break them.

Stokes' story of his years at Westbrook catalogues the horrors endured by children at the hands of the authorities, and how they managed to survive. It also exposes a system that turned petty offenders into hardened criminals, and drove a few even to murder. Westbrook reveals the damaged and broken lives that resulted and how the repercussions continued to be felt long after the original sentences were served.

Westbrook's brutal and compelling honesty gives us a shocking insight into Australia's forgotten generation.

Author:   Stokes, William
ISBN:  

9781405040075


Publication Date:   01 May 2010
Bind Format:   Paperback
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In 1958 fourteen-year-old William Stokes was sentenced to Westbrook Farm Home for Boys after committing a few trivial offences. At that time, Westbrook was the most feared institution for young offenders in Australia - a brutal tyranny ruled by a sadistic superintendent, where boys laboured in the fields from dawn to dusk and where bare-skin floggings were the answer to any misdemeanour, however minor. Inmates were systematically humiliated and degraded in a regimen designed to break them.

Stokes' story of his years at Westbrook catalogues the horrors endured by children at the hands of the authorities, and how they managed to survive. It also exposes a system that turned petty offenders into hardened criminals, and drove a few even to murder. Westbrook reveals the damaged and broken lives that resulted and how the repercussions continued to be felt long after the original sentences were served.

Westbrook's brutal and compelling honesty gives us a shocking insight into Australia's forgotten generation.

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Author:   Stokes, William
ISBN:  

9781405040075


Publication Date:   01 May 2010
Bind Format:   Paperback
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.
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