Struan Morrison’s Hakea prison greens tell the story of a journey through psychosis, prison and survival

The Hakea prison greens were never supposed to leave the prison. Somehow, Struan Morrison walked out with them.

He does not remember exactly how. He remembers plenty about the week he spent wearing them.

Morrison was psychotic, almost blind and locked in isolation at Hakea Prison when his life was spiralling out of control in October 2023.

Now the 31-year-old is technically homeless, cannot drive because of severe vision loss and spends much of his week back in a boxing gym in Midland.

The greens turned up recently while he was clearing through his belongings.

People wanted to buy them. One mate told him he could get at least $1000.

“I can’t put a price on ‘em,” he says. “For me and all I went through. That journey to hell.”

He says he was only there for about a week, transferred there after a period of increasingly bizarre behaviour, police encounters and repeated attempts by his family to get him into psychiatric care.

He says he was almost completely blind and deeply psychotic. And he was confined to a cell.

Then there was the toilet. Morrison says he stood in the cell and repeatedly flushed it, flooding the toilet and eventually the corridor.

When he asked for a blanket, he recalls being told: “You made the mess now you can sleep in it.”

“All but blind. Psychotic. Locked inside a box,” he says. “That place was the definition of the deepest darkest part of hell.”

He had been pushing himself physically and mentally, trying to become comfortable with being uncomfortable as he prepared for a boxing fight.

He says he became consumed by the idea that he was fighting evil and eventually believed he had seen “the ruler of this world”.