From escaping Boggo Road Gaol to Boy Swallows Universe. The story of Arthur ‘Slim’ Halliday
Boggo Road Gaol crouches imposingly like a gargoyle on a hill in Brisbane’s south. It’s a wound from the old days of penal policy, morphed in the minds of Brisbanites over the years into a heritage part of the city. The quintessential prison — which closed finally in 1992 — housed Queensland’s most notorious criminals,…