The Minister, Mr James Dwyer.
 

The uber screw, the main man, the big boss. Call him what you will, but nobody stepped on the Minister's shoes. On the outside he was gentleman defined, smooth-talking while giving an air of 'I'm on the prisoner's side and I'm here to make sure they get proper treatment', but on the inside he was as black as Joan with an even bigger hunger for power. Nobody messed with Dwyer and got away with it!

In real life, James Condon was married to Anne Haddy who played Alice Hemmings (until her death).

Yeah, I've mentioned that somewhere else in one of the threads. I couldn't believe it when watching Neighbours one day when he popped up and ended up marrying Anne Haddy (again!) who was playing Helen Daniels. thinking about it, I wonder if it's the only time a real-life married couple has played two people who meet and get married on two different TV shows?

do we think it is realistic that an actual minister would have such involvement with one prison? I am not so sure myself but it did give us some great scenes..like when Lori lied saying Ann told her to say she was raped etc etc

Bit of Trivia - a few years before that he was also in Neighbours as Douglas Blake, a con-man who stole diamonds from Helen. Madge helped her catch him.