Australia's Most Murderous Prison

Behind the walls of Goulburn Jail lies a dark history. An unprecedented spate of murders in the 1990s—seven in just three years—earned the jail the ominous name of 'The Killing Fields'. Inmates sentenced or transferred to this 130-year-old towering sandstone menace declared they had been given a death sentence.

Gang alliances, power plays, contracted hits, the ice trade, the colour of your skin—even mistaken identity—could seal your fate. The worst race war in the history of Australian prisons saw several groups—Aboriginal, Lebanese, Asian, Islander, and Anglo—wage a vicious and uncontrollable battle for power. Every day there were stabbings. Every day there were bashings. And then there was murder.

A controversial policy known as 'racial clustering' might have put an end to the Killing Fields, but soon something far scarier would arise, something called Supermax. Within its stark white walls, clinical halls, and solitary confinement, Australia's most evil men are locked away.

It is home to serial killer Ivan Milat, the 'Terror Five' militants who plotted attacks across Sydney in 2005, Brothers 4 Life founder Bassam Hamzy, and gang rapist Bilal Skaf, to name a few. Murderers, terrorists, serial killers, gangsters, and rapists—you will meet them all inside Australia's Most Murderous Prison.