Jack Charles did his time, but his record remains a ball and chain

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Jack Charles did his time, but his record remains a ball and chain, writes Tony Wright

Jack Charles remembers no childhood comfort of a mother’s embrace or a father’s protection.

He was charged with leaving his foster home without permission, and taken into detention. It was his first conviction. What he and everyone else witnessed was an immensely talented man, a born actor, living homeless on the streets of Collingwood and Fitzroy, a burglar forever struggling to service his heroin addiction.

But for 10 years as a reformed man, he wasn’t allowed through the door of prisons that had once dragged him in and slammed the bars behind him. All other states and territories in Australia, and the Commonwealth itself, have legislation that offers a chink of light.File image

 

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