Australia’s Best Prison Stories
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Arrest and Breakout in Australia
In my book “Australia’s Best Prison Stories” my main feature
story, was in my view, about the biggest prison escape that ever occurred in
the history of Australian prisons.
The escape occurred in 2001. It involved two of America’s most wanted drug
lords, Kiko Rios Balderrama and Eduardo Armanda Quiroz. My story was written from official records
and contained photos that were exclusive and unpublished.
There are many sound and substantial reasons why convicted
prisoners should not be permitted to make money from their crimes by writing
books about their crimes, this in principle I fully support.
I was always taught, “Rules were made for fools to follow and
wise men to be guided by”.
Kiko Rios Balderrama has written and published a book from
his prison cell in a Federal maximum security prison in Lee-County, Virginia,
United States of America, where in 2023 is still his place of abode.
The title of Balderrama’s book is, “Arrest and Breakout in Australia”.
This book to my mind is clearly the exception to the
rule. The book has been translated from
Spanish into English and it is very apparent that it has been done so. When reading, the reader can almost hear the
writer speaking with his Mexican accent and in some cases broken English. That aside, there is a lot to be learned from
this true account of what really happened leading up to, during, and following
the escape.
I strongly believe all Prison Officers, Police and those who
have a vested interest in law in enforcement, should firstly read my book, “Australia’s
Best Prison Stories”, which is the NSW Corrective Services account of what
occurred, yet told in my words, followed by reading Kiko Rios Balderrama’s book,
“Arrest and Breakout in Australia”.
I promise there is more to learn from these two books about
“Prisons” than you can learn in any classroom, providing you are smart enough
to heed the lessons within the pages.
This I believe.
Peter T Egge
