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    HM Prison Pentridge, better known as Pentridge Prison, was an Australian prison established in 1851 in Coburg, Victoria. The first convicts arrived at...
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    name of individual prisons and is usually abbreviated to HM Prison or HMP. The title of HM Prison is given to a number of prisons in Australia, especially...
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    demand due to the recent closures of HM Prison Geelong in 1991 and HM Prison Pentridge in 1997. Construction of the prison commenced in 1986. The works were...
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    From Pentonville to Pentridge: A history of prisons in Victoria. State Library of Victoria. p. 79. ISBN 0730679608. "HM Prison Beechworth - Sydney Rd"...
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  • terms at HM Prison Pentridge, and at 18, he was imprisoned for serious theft and drug offences. In his 20s, after his release from Pentridge, Johnson...
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    HM Prison Bendigo was a medium security prison facility located in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. Constructed in the early 1863, the prison officially closed...
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  • 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...
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    sentenced to 12 years for rape and assault and was sent to HM Prison Pentridge. While in prison, he befriended cell mate Christopher Dale Flannery, who was...
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    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...
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  • Pentridge is the name of a village in Dorset, England. It may also refer to: HM Prison Pentridge, in Victoria, Australia Coburg, Victoria, originally named...
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  • 250,000 worldwide. The album artwork features the front gate of HM Prison Pentridge. All tracks are written by Joel and Ryan O'Keeffe In addition to...
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    The Melbourne Assessment Prison (MAP) is an Australian remand and reception prison located in Spencer Street, West Melbourne, Victoria. The facility is...
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    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...
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  • HM Prison Langi Kal Kal is an Australian prison located in Trawalla, near Beaufort, Victoria, Australia. The prison is a minimum security prison farm and...
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  • 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...
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    sentenced for contempt of court on Thursday 15 May 1969 and taken to HM Prison Pentridge. This led to immediate walk outs on the Thursday, and a general strike...
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    MacArthur's Chief of Staff, Richard Sutherland). Leonski was hanged at HM Prison Pentridge on 9 November. His reported last meal was steak, eggs, toast, and...
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  • Historical Studies, Department of History, The University of. "Fairlea, HM Prison - Entry - eMelbourne - The Encyclopedia of Melbourne Online". emelbourne...
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    Old Melbourne Gaol HM Prison Beechworth HM Prison Fairlea HM Prison Geelong HM Prison Sale HM Prison Morwell River HM Prison Pentridge Many films and television...
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    Baths Eastern Hill Fire Station General Post Office Government House HM Prison Pentridge, Coburg National Gallery of Victoria Old Melbourne Gaol Old Melbourne...
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    escaped, but was soon recaptured and received a ten-year sentence in HM Prison Pentridge. Within a year of his release in 1879, he and his gang held up the...
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  • 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...
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  • hostage while imprisoned at the HM Melbourne Assessment Prison when he learned of his impending transfer to HM Prison Pentridge. In 2006, Brazel was awarded...
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  • 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...
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  • dating back to his mid-teens. In November 1981, he escaped from HM Prison Pentridge where he was awaiting a court hearing on charges of murder and armed...
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    sentenced to death in March 1950. They were hanged eleven months later at Pentridge Gaol. Lee was the last woman to be executed in Australia. Jean Lee was...
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    buildings where it was often combined with a gothic revival style. HM Prison Pentridge (1851) is particularly notable as one of the largest gold rush era...
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    released from HM Prison Pentridge in March 1879 and after his release he made a few pounds by lecturing on the enormities of Pentridge Gaol. On regaining...
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  • following Sunday, and spent a further 19 days incarceration. in HM Prison Pentridge. This was bad publicity for the State Government, who changed the...
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  • the front bench. Houghton is remembered for his work cleaning up HM Prison Pentridge and the Yarra River. Houghton was born in Melbourne, the son of solicitor...
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