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  2. HM Prison Pentridge - Wikipedia

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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 the gaol in 1851. The facility closed on 1 May 1997, although some of the heritage-listed buildings still stand. [5] Pentridge Prison E Division courtyard, 2020

  3. William John O'Meally - Wikipedia

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    In March 1957 O'Meally again escaped from Pentridge. With an accomplice, John Henry Taylor, who was armed with a .38 automatic handgun, he ran through the main gates of the gaol. Chief Penal officer Robert Davis tried to stop them and was shot in the thigh, breaking his femur.

  4. Shantaram (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The series will be filmed in Victoria, Australia, with scenes filmed at Docklands Studios Melbourne and HM Prison Pentridge. It was also announced that the series will get 7.4 million Australian dollars in funding from the Australian Government. The series consists of 12 episodes with four episodes directed by Justin Kurzel.

  5. Gregory David Roberts - Wikipedia

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    He escaped from Pentridge Prison in 1980. [1] [5] In 1990, Roberts was captured in Frankfurt, trying to smuggle himself into the country. He was extradited to Australia and served a further six years in prison, two of which were spent in solitary confinement. According to Roberts, he escaped prison again during that time but thought better of ...

  6. Frank Gardiner - Wikipedia

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    On 20 March 1851, Gardiner was part of a work party working outside Pentridge Prison when they rushed the guards and escaped. Most of the convicts were rounded up within days but Gardiner escaped and made his way to New South Wales , perhaps stopping at the station in central Victoria where his father and younger sisters were living.

  7. Matthew Charles Johnson - Wikipedia

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    [4] In his 20s, after his release from Pentridge, Johnson secured employment as a concreter and was able to stay out of trouble until he suffered a workplace injury. In January 1998, Johnson was involved in a series of armed robberies; during one incident, Johnson entered an elderly couple's home at Safety Beach, Victoria, with a knife. In ...

  8. Chopper (film) - Wikipedia

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    The first part, filmed at the H Division of Pentridge Prison, one of the actual prisons that Chopper frequented, was as plain and sterile as could be and all the scenes in the second part, taking place in 1986, were overly coloured [5] to achieve a paranoid and agoraphobic atmosphere called "visual overload" by the director Andrew Dominik.

  9. Ronald Ryan - Wikipedia

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    Ronald Joseph Ryan (21 February 1925 – 3 February 1967) was the last person to be legally executed in Australia.Ryan was found guilty of shooting and killing warder George Hodson during an escape from Pentridge Prison, Victoria, in 1965.