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HM Prison Pentridge was an Australian prison that was established in 1851 in Coburg, Victoria. The first prisoners arrived in 1851. The prison closed...

of shooting and killing warder George Hodson during an escape from Pentridge Prison, Victoria, in 1965. Ryan's hanging was met with public protests by...

police officer and kidnapping. While in Pentridge Prison's H division in the late 1970s, Read launched a prison war. "The Overcoat Gang" wore long coats...

a convicted Australian bank robber and heroin addict escapes from Pentridge Prison and flees to India. The novel is commended by many for its vivid portrayal...

a former heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped from Pentridge Prison in 1980 and fled to India, where he lived for ten years. Roberts reportedly...

Victoria following his conviction for killing a prison officer while escaping from Pentridge Prison. Between Ryan's execution in 1967 and 1984, several...

Faure and Chopper Read continued a lengthy prison war while imprisoned in Melbourne's Pentridge Prison during the 1970s and 1980s and Faure features...

Brunswick and Coburg, where the quarry used to source the stone for Pentridge Prison is now Coburg Lake. Bluestone was also sourced in many other regions...

cult following. In 1978 Victoria, Mark "Chopper" Read is an inmate at Pentridge Prison. Keithy George, another inmate, points to a line in the yard and tells...

to be executed in Australia after he killed a prison officer whilst attempting to escape Pentridge Prison. A few years later the Federal Parliament passed...

before being executed at Pentridge Prison, Victoria in 1936. Sodeman was the second of eleven people to be hanged at Pentridge Prison after the closure of...

were converted for prison use. Prior to the opening of Fairlea, female prisoners had been held in a small section Pentridge Prison. Fairlea's grounds...

imprisoned for a series of armed robberies until he eventually escaped from Pentridge Prison. He successfully flees to Bombay, India, changes his identity, and...

Victoria. He was executed at Pentridge Prison, Victoria in 1941. Bye was the sixth of eleven people to be hanged at Pentridge Prison after the closure of Melbourne...

overcrowded Melbourne Gaol to a stockade at Pentridge. Prisoners at what came to be called HM Prison Pentridge were immediately put on "hard labour" by breaking...

kilograms of heroin and cocaine, and the release of seventeen inmates from Pentridge Prison. However, one of the hostages escaped and notified police, and Eastwood...

convicted and executed at Pentridge Prison in January 1939. Johnson was the fourth of eleven people to be hanged at Pentridge Prison after the closure of Melbourne...

Middap again informed on Dietrich, who was arrested and taken to Pentridge Prison hospital, where the remaining heroin was passed. Dietrich was charged...

sentence at Beechworth Gaol, then at Pentridge Prison. On 25 June 1873, his good behaviour earned him a transfer to the prison ship Sacramento, anchored off...

John O'Meally was the last person flogged in Australia in Melbourne's Pentridge Prison in 1958. It has been abolished in recent decades in Hong Kong, Jamaica...