From the Maitland Mercury report:
The black earth of Maitland Gaol will soon be forced to give up the trinkets of those confined to the sandstone walls and now, with the passing of a century, to history. It may be non descript as a field of grass behind the cell blocks that held some of the State’s most notorious prisoners, dismissed as simply a patch of lush greenery in an expanse of graying sandstone and concrete...
...an ambitious project to scrape away the layers of earth and reveal what secrets had lain buried for decades or more.
Full article by Briony Snedden avaliable at Maitland Mercury, 16/10/2009.
