Editing HM Prison Fairlea (section)

===Riot===
In January 1980 prisoners staged a riot in the mess hall where furniture and crockery were smashed and fittings ripped from kitchen walls. During the incident four prisoners took advantage of the diversion and climbed through smashed windows onto the roof. At 2.00 am prisoners set alight toilet paper in two bathrooms at either end of two adjoining dormitories. Prisoners from two dormitories were locked in the mess hall during the blaze. Firemen, prison officers and a few inmates soon controlled the fire.<ref>Fairlea blaze sorts rebels from the rest. ''[[The Age]]'': 9 January 1980, p.4.</ref>