It’s Christmas day and many of us will be tucking into prawns, ham and turkey with all the sides before imbibing in a few festive drinks (responsibly of course).
More than 40,000 people are locked up around Australia, and despite being imprisoned most of them will still get a Christmas dinner.
Here’s what’ll be on the plate of some of Australia’s most notorious and accused criminals today.
Claremont serial killer & Cleo’s kidnapper
In 2020, it was confirmed that Bradley Robert Edwards was the killer of Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon who went missing from Claremont in the 90s.
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This will be the eighth Christmas he’ll be behind bars at Casuarina Prison and with no possibility of parole until 2056, there are many more on the cards.
Terrence Kelly, 37, who was convicted of kidnapping Cleo Smith also has a cell at Casuarina.
These two and more than 1000 inmates at Casuarina will be served roast chicken, ham and vegetables sourced from WA’s prison farms.
Seafood, exotic fruits and vegetables have a ‘luxury’ classification and prisoners are not permitted to eat them.
There are no visitors allowed on Christmas day.
A 2022 WA Government survey found only 25 per cent of prisoners at Casuarina rated the food as good, while 72 per cent rated in poor.
WA’s most notorious female inmate
Catherine Birnie will celebrate her 37th Christmas in jail this year at Bandyup maximum security correctional facility.
Now 72, Birnie helped her husband kill four women but one day hopes to be released.
Events like Halloween and Harmony Day are held at Bandyup, with an annual Children’s Christmas Party hosted for the children of women in custody.
Mushroom chef
Similar fare will be served in prisons over east. This will be Erin Patterson’s first Christmas in jail. She is incarcerated at the Dame Phyllis Frost correctional centre.
Ms Patterson was charged earlier this year with the murder of her in-laws Gail and Don Patterson, and Heather Wilkinson, and the attempted murder of Ian Wilkinson by serving poison mushrooms in a beef Wellington.
Her and about 600 other inmates, including notorious Underbelly inmate Judy Moran will be eating a meal of ham, chicken, gravy and roast vegetables, according to the Daily Mail.