“I’ve got five pairs of shoes now,” says Fuzzy*. He admits this might seem like a strange thing to be proud of, “but I’ve never been able to have that before. I’ve lived out of a suitcase for the last – oh, probably since 2014.”
Fuzzy has been in prison nine times, although he says he might have lost count. But after the last stint – an aggravated burglary driven by addiction, as much of his behaviour that put him behind bars has been – he was released into secure housing for the first time, to the Maribyrnong Community Residential Facility in Melbourne.
