Imprisonment
In the late 1980s Ritter served 16 months of a 3-year prison sentence in Fremantle and Karnet prisons for fraudulently attempting to obtain Commonwealth export grants; he maintained that he had been framed. After his release he published Curses From Canberra: public service conspiracy and the failure of democratic safeguards and a collection of the poems and artwork he produced whilst serving his sentence. "They put me there against my will" he wrote, "There will be no apology / Prison is a great big phoney / The theory for it is pure baloney" and "Errors that placed me in this cage / Are still the subject of some rage."
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