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Scars in the Marble: Justice, Power, and Those Who Resist
Leading with resilience: One Woman's Fight for Truth Inside a Closed SystemBy Bronwyn HendryLength6h 37m
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Prisons are closed environments. That closure is necessary for security — but it also creates conditions where harm can be hidden, minimised, and normalised. Harm to prisoners. Harm to staff. Harm that travels home in the nervous system of every person who walks through those gates and tries to leave the job at the door. Bronwyn Hendry spent years as a custodial officer inside that world. She entered with the values she had been raised with — a country woman's conviction that decency was its own protection, that hard work would be recognised, that integrity would shield her. She was wrong on all three counts.What she encountered instead was a culture built on loyalty over truth, silence over accountability, and the quiet management of anyone who refused to accept that this was simply how things were. She encountered a circle — of protection, of complicity, of carefully maintained ignorance — and she found herself, without choosing it, on the outside of it.
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GenreTrue Crime, Biography and Memoir
Length6 hrs 37 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 25, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
17CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Following the Bouncing Ball
2DEDICATION
18CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Blunt Teeth
3PREFACE
19CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Erased and Unbroken
4PROLOGUE: The Silencing: How Power Protects Itself
20CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Coffee and Complicity
5CHAPTER ONE: The Crucible
21CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Dissection
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6CHAPTER TWO: Initiation by Fire
22CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: The Long Reckoning
7CHAPTER THREE: Fighting for Dignity in the Halls of Power
23CHAPTER NINETEEN: A Chorus Ignored
8CHAPTER FOUR: The Warnings
24CHAPTER TWENTY: Bali Money
9CHAPTER FIVE: Deadwood
25CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: No Sanctuary
10CHAPTER SIX: Resort Behind the Razor Wire
26CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: The Hallways of Intimidation
11CHAPTER SEVEN: Bodily Autonomy — Who Owns Whose
27CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: The Long Shadow
12CHAPTER EIGHT: The House That the Prison Built
28CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: The Media Mirror
13CHAPTER NINE: Hood and Needles
29CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: The Silence in Every Corridor
14CHAPTER TEN: Fillet Steak
30CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: The Architecture of Contempt
15CHAPTER ELEVEN: Two Kinds of Prisoner
31CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: What the Institution Feared
16CHAPTER TWELVE: The Poisoned Well
32END NOTE: This Is Not the End of the Story