Scott Miller

Well, that's a good question because they really make it impossible.

Yep.

Because when you get out, you go to Social Security and you get your doll, right?

But to get your doll, you need a bank account, right?

But try to find a bank that'll give you a bank account when you go to prison.

I went through seven or eight different banks, and within two weeks of applying for a card, they'd write back, say, sorry, this clause, we can't help you.

So I've just got a job, too, driving a truck, so I've got to go tell my employer, give him a different bank account every second week, like five or six times, so embarrassing, because it kept getting shut down.

So it just doesn't make sense as to how you're supposed to start when that simple thing is so hard.

The eyes.

Feeling like you're getting judged.

Because mine was thrown around in the media a bit.

Yeah.

So I did feel like I was being looked at a lot and judged and it sort of made me go into a bit of a hole sometimes.

And I can remember thinking after three months, I just wish I was back in, back in Hunter where I don't have to feel like this.

It was a horrible feeling and it really took me a lot of mental strength to sort of, you know, just get on with it, stop whinging.

And that's when I just got into the truck drive and I was just doing four big days a week and, and, uh,

It got me through, yeah.

And after those nine months and then mum got sick and then I had to move home up to mum and dad's place and going into the caring role sort of was kind of cathartic for me because I was just back around my old home and my old friends from the area and I just felt much more, felt like I was much more accepted, yeah.

No, it's not.

She's stubborn.