Scars in the Marble: Justice, Power, and Those Who Resist: A Memoir (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798253207260)

Prisons are closed environments. That closure is necessary for security. It also creates conditions where harm can be hidden, minimised, and normalised - harm to prisoners, harm to staff, and harm to the broader community when people are released more damaged than when they entered.

Scars in the Marble is the account of one woman who worked inside that environment, witnessed what power looks like without accountability, and chose testimony over silence.

Part memoir, part social document, this book traces the journey from a country childhood shaped by decency and plain-speaking into an institution where the rules are enforced by glances, silence, and the slow punishment of anyone who insists on meaning what they say.

It is also the story of The Silenced - a growing movement of custodial staff and former officers who have carried too much for too long, and who refuse to let the institution be the sole author of its own history.

Written with literary precision and moral courage, Scars in the Marble is a record that cannot be unfiled.