Jack Laurence

So she's off to prison for her first long stretch and says that she really had no fear of prison itself for the simple reason that she was walking into an environment where she knew a lot of the faces staring back at her.

You know, I deal with, in my other show, I deal with a lot of American prisoners who tell me about, you know, prison in America and what that's like and that sort of stuff.

I mean, for Australian prisons, what's the conditions like?

Is it a place that you go to and you go, well, there's no way in hell I'm ever going back in there?

Or is it, you know, cruisy?

I mean, I know drugs are rife in prison.

Did you manage to get hold of drugs in prison?

Yeah.

Were you an angry kid or a young adult?

So Holly is serving her 18-year prison sentence, a sentence she got because of heroin, the drug she continued to use while in prison, a drug that had already taken so much from her and was about to take even more.

Eventually, Holly gets released and placed on a six-month work release program designed for her to give back through voluntary work.

and all the while constantly being tested for drugs.

If she returns a positive result, it's straight back to prison.

So she stays clean for the entire six months.

But as soon as it's over, she's back to heroin and making plans to head to Thailand, where her husband was.

Holly's husband was wanted in Australia, so had remained in Thailand for her entire prison stretch, and in fact would meet up with two other Australians who were also on the run, and had been for ten years.

The three had established themselves quite nicely, with a couple of properties, and more importantly for them, a steady supply of pure heroin that was cheap.

In essence, Holly says at that time in their life, they were living their best life.

However, getting caught with drugs in Australia is one thing.

Getting caught in a place like Thailand is completely different.