Research Co-ordinator Sue, and former officer Kevin, discuss Kevin’s career in the prisons service and what life was like for an officer on the inside of Boggo Road Gaol during the infamous eighties full of riots, protests and violence. “My first impression of Boggo Road Gaol was it was an absolute nightmare! There were rats as big as cats and it was just putrid.” The trouble there all came to a head in 1988 when a series of riots took place.