Pentridge Behind The Bluestone Walls

Author : Cheryl Osborne,Don Osborne
Publisher : Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781760069605

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Pentridge - Behind the Bluestone Walls by Cheryl Osborne,Don Osborne Pdf

When Don Osborne went to Pentridge in 1970, he found a nineteenth-century penal establishment in full working order. It held about 1200 inmates, most of them cooped up in tiny stone cells that sweltered in summer and froze in winter. Some had no sewerage or electric light. Assigned to teach in the high-security section of the prison, Don worked in the chapel, which doubled as a classroom during the week. There, he saw the terrible effects of the violence that permeated H Division, the prison's punishment section. He found himself acting as confidant and counsellor to some of the best-known criminals of the era, and to others who'd become notorious later, after H Division had worked its magic on them. This book offers an insider's reflections on how the prison emergd as it did, and is supplemented by a stunning pictorial section. It focuses especially on the rebellious 1970s, when the military 'disciplines' of H Division began to give way in the face of prisoner resistance and public criticism. Don writes of the people and events that shaped Petnridge's history and etched it into the memories of the city that was its reluctant host.

Author : Don Osborn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Prisoners
ISBN : 1760069612

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Pentridge by Don Osborn Pdf

Author : James Phelps
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781460716267

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Australia's Most Infamous Jail by James Phelps Pdf

'Pentridge was a place of murder and mayhem. A bluestone hell. The worst prison Australia has ever seen.' Andrew Kirby, former inmate Welcome to Pentridge, Australia's most infamous prison. In the long-awaited return to his bestselling true crime series on life behind bars, James Phelps has finally turned his attention to HM Prison Pentridge - the bluestone behemoth that was home to Victoria's worst criminals for more than a century. Beginning with a gang of guards and a handful of convicts, for more than 145 years Pentridge housed a who's who of Australian criminals and Melbourne's underworld including Ned Kelly and Mark 'Chopper' Read. From solving the mystery of Ned Kelly's missing skull to the shocking truth about who really cut off Chopper's ears - Australia's Most Infamous Jail includes true and uncensored accounts of inmates (including a convicted serial killer, a mass murderer and the real Romper Stomper), guards, archaeologists and even a former governor-general. This is gritty, true crime storytelling, on steroids - about what life was really like behind the bluestone walls of Pentridge.

Author : Craig Cormick
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781486301775

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Ned Kelly by Craig Cormick Pdf

Ned Kelly was hanged at the Old Melbourne Gaol on 11 November 1880, and his body buried in the graveyard there. Many stories emerged about his skull being separated and used as a paperweight or trophy, and it was finally put on display at the museum of the Old Melbourne Gaol — until it was stolen in 1978. It wasn’t only Ned Kelly’s skull that went missing. After the closure of the Old Melbourne Gaol in 1929, the remains of deceased prisoners were exhumed and reinterred in mass graves at Pentridge Prison. The exact location of these graves was unknown until 2002, when the bones of prisoners were uncovered at the Pentridge site during redevelopment. This triggered a larger excavation that in 2009 uncovered many more coffins, and led to the return of the skull and a long scientific process to try to identify and reunite Ned Kelly’s remains. But how do you go about analysing and accurately identifying a skeleton and skull that are more than 130 years old? Ned Kelly: Under the Microscope details what was involved in the 20-month scientific process of identifying the remains of Ned Kelly, with chapters on anthropology, odontology, DNA studies, metallurgical analysis of the gang's armour, and archaeological digs at Pentridge Prison and Glenrowan. It also includes medical analysis of Ned's wounds and a chapter on handwriting analysis — that all lead to the final challenging conclusions. Illustrated throughout with photographs taken during the forensic investigation, as well as historical images, the book is supplemented with breakout boxes of detailed but little-known facts about Ned Kelly and the gang to make this riveting story a widely appealing read.

Author : Colin Rimington
Publisher : Hybrid Publishers
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781922768056

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History of the Criminal Justice System in Victoria by Colin Rimington Pdf

This is an authoritative, comprehensive account of Victoria’s justice system, starting with a tour of the historic justice precinct which is located on the corner of La Trobe Street and Russell Street, Melbourne. The author takes us back to the earliest days of Victoria’s settlement and introduces the politicians, police, magistrates, and even the criminals who played their parts in Melbourne and Victoria’s development. We are shown how the prison hulks developed into stockades on land, and uncover the philosophy behind the construction of the prisons – many no longer occupied – and the building of courts which were built for conducting trials, both civil and criminal. The book is, in many ways, an insight into an aspect of Victoria’s social history about which little has been written elsewhere. It is a valuable addition to the justice bibliography and even exposes a mystery or two. It took seven years to research and fact check, and includes many photos. All of the author’s proceeds of this book after costs will be donated to Victoria Police Legacy, which looks after families of deceased police officers who have died in the course of their duties.

Author : Jacqueline Z. Wilson
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 143310279X

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Prison by Jacqueline Z. Wilson Pdf

"Prison: Cultural Memory and Dark Tourism discusses decommissioned Australian prisons currently or potentially functioning as tourist attractions. In particular, it addresses a fundamental question: Do the interpretations and presentations of the sites include and fairly represent the personal stories and experiences associated with those prisons? The author argues that the conventional understanding of most of Australia's historical prisons fosters a radical "othering" of inmates, and with it the exclusion, distortion and historical neglect of their narratives." "This book examines avenues via which neglected narratives may be glimpsed or inferred, presenting a number of examples. This remedies the imbalance in some degree - and tests such avenues' potential as resources for inclusive interpretations by public historians and curators. The book also focuses on the influence of "celebrity prisoners", whose links to the penal system are exploited as promotional features by the sites and in some cases by the individuals themselves. Their narratives provide broad, if unwitting, support for the system and for the othering of the more general inmate population." "The ramifications of the above with regard to aspects of Australian identity mean that certain facets of the "Australian character" traditionally held to be emblematic are affected. These effects have subtle but tangible consequences for modern Australians' collective memory and deleterious consequences for current popular attitudes to penal practice."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Rupert Mann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1911617532

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Pentridge by Rupert Mann Pdf

Members of the last generation of inmates and staff return to the now-forgotten prison to tell the true and brutal story of Pentridge before developers bury it forever. Rupert Mann has worked with the past all his life, and is interested in how we use, forget, and celebrate it today. This priceless work, completed over five years, is an attempt to hear the voices of the last generation who lived and worked at Pentridge Prison, now the only ones who can tell the tale before the site is redeveloped and its true history is lost. Within the forgotten and decaying walls of this once shining fortress, fifteen people returned to their memories and to Pentridge -- many for the first time since being released or having retired up to 60 years before -- to bear witness to its end and to be photographed amongst the decay as a testament to the resilience of the human spirit. They include former prisoners, such as Jack Charles, Billy Longley, and Ray Mooney; former staff, such as Peter Norden and Pat Merlo; musicians who played there, such as Paul Kelly; and Brian Morley, a legal witness to Ronald Ryan's execution in 1967. Pentridge was, for 146 years, a concentrated crossroads of disparate song lines and an integral if unwanted part of Melbourne's identity. In its cells, corridors, and halls can be found the remnants of an endless litany of love, hate, loss, and discovery, friendship and conflict, political dealings and petty squabbles. There is no betrayal, affirmation, or epiphany that has not occurred there. And during all those years, life was messily split between jailer and prisoner by bluestone and iron. This is their collective story.

Author : Geoffrey McGeachin
Publisher : Brio Books Pty Ltd
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781922598219

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St Kilda Blues by Geoffrey McGeachin Pdf

Selected for State Library of Victoria's Summer Read Programme 2014-2015 Bookworld Top 10 Crime & Thriller Books of 2014 'This is a terrific read with great plot twists, complex characters and a menacing atmosphere.' Sarina Gale, Books + Publishing, March 2014 It’s 1967, the summer of love, and in swinging Melbourne Detective Sergeant Charlie Berlin has been hauled out of exile in the Fraud Squad to investigate the disappearance of a teenage girl, the daughter of a powerful and politically connected property developer. As Berlin’s inquiries uncover more missing girls he gets an uneasy feeling he may be dealing with the city’s first serial killer. Berlin's investigation leads him through inner-city discotheques, hip photographic studios, the emerging drug culture and into the seedy back streets of St Kilda. The investigation also brings up ghosts of Berlin's past as a bomber pilot and POW in Europe and disturbing memories of the casual murder of a young woman he witnessed on a snow-covered road in Poland in the war's dying days. As in war, some victories come at a terrible cost and Berlin will have to face an awful truth and endure an unimaginable loss before his investigation is over.

Author : Bree Carlton
Publisher : Institute of Criminology
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0975196758

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Imprisoning Resistance by Bree Carlton Pdf

Nominated in the True Crime Category for the 8th Davitt Awards. These awards recognise the best crime novels and true crime books written by Australian women, published in 2007. 29 October 2007 marks twenty years since the death of five prisoners in a riot and fire in the infamous Jika Jika high-security unit. This book resurrects these events and invites us to learn urgent lessons in our current age of supermax and privatised prisons, detention of asylum seekers and the controversial use of indefinite detention under the banner of a 'war on terror'. Imprisoning Resistance provides an experiential account of life and death in the controversial Pentridge Prison Jika Jika High-Security Unit in Victoria during the 1980s. One of Australia's first hi-tech supermax prisons, Jika Jika was designed to house and manage the system's 'worst of the worst' prisoners. Several years of deaths in custody, multiple escapes, assaults, murders, prisoner campaigns and protests, hunger strikes and allegations of prison staff brutality escalated in 1987 to a dramatic protest fire that resulted in the deaths of five prisoners. The prison was closed and a series of inquiries were commissioned. Bree Carlton revisits this uncomfortable past and reconstructs events leading up to and surrounding the fire and deaths, while critically analysing official responses to the discreditable episodes, crises and deaths that plagued Jika Jika.

Author : Ron Wilson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781664106482

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Joseph Akeroyd: Rediscovering a Prison Reformer by Ron Wilson Pdf

School teacher Joseph Akeroyd was appointed Inspector General of Victoria's prison system in 1924. He held this role until 1947 becoming the longest serving Inspector General in Victoria's history. This book examines the experiences, achievements and failures of Joseph Akeroyd, the longest serving Inspector General of Victoria's (Australia) penal system, in reforming that system. This is not a traditional biography. It traverses Akeroyd's experiences in his time and reflects on reforms through the author's experiences as a contemporary prison educator. Drawing on his education background, Akeroyd revolutionised the ways prisons and prisoners in Victoria were managed and many of these reforms are embedded in current practice. Access to his personal diaries, letters, official reports, newspaper reports and other private documentation gave insights so his single-minded reform agenda establishing Victoria's unique relationship between education and prison management can now be recognised and acknowledged. There are many personal stories where Akeroyd interacted with infamous criminals. The examination of thwarted escape plans, rectifying wrongful convictions, recording the final days of those awaiting the noose, interviewing those about to be whipped or birched and following up after the events are moderated with contemporary stories of modern day interactions between teachers and prisoner students- some humorous, some sad, some sobering. Finally, this book will challenge all readers to reflect on the role of education in prisons, gain insights following stories of conversations with inmates, challenges in changing practice, involved in education, especially prisoner education, whether you are forming policy, advising policy and practice, delivering programs, supporting those undertaking studies, managing those who teach and /or preparing to teach in these unique environments to reflect on your own learnings and how to adequately prepare for those undertaking this vocation in the future.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UOM:39015055037892

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Australian Government Publications by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Miles,Paul Loseby
Publisher : Random House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Prisons
ISBN : 9780091946791

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Banged Up Abroad by James Miles,Paul Loseby Pdf

When James Miles and his best friend Paul Loseby were caught smuggling ten kilos of cocaine out of Caracas, Venezuela, they couldn't deny their guilt. This title tells the true-life story of how two men endured untold savagery in the most appalling conditions.

Author : Studio Gang,dNA Architecture,Fender Katsalidis Architects
Publisher : AADR – Art Architecture Design Research
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783887788018

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Inflection 02 : Projection by Studio Gang,dNA Architecture,Fender Katsalidis Architects Pdf

Our built environment exists in a perpetual state of becoming, caught in a process of creation that is continuous and unending. If we wish to understand architecture today, we must engage with the state of flux that defines it. In 2015, Inflection Volume 02 considers the idea of projection, interrogating its meaning in architecture and the built environment. Bringing together the work of students, academics and practitioners from Australia and around the world, this issue addresses the trajectories of the architectural design process, the changing role of architects in society, and the continuing state of becoming that defines our cities. Includes contributions by Studio Gang, dNA Architecture, Pérez-Gomèz and Studio Sioli, Fender Katsalidis Architects, and others... Inflection is a student-run design journal based at the Melbourne School of Design, Melbourne University. Born from a desire to stimulate debate and generate ideas, it advocates the discursive voice of students, academics and practitioners. Founded in 2013, Inflection is a home for provocative writing – a place to share ideas and engage with contemporary discourse. Inflection is fundamentally a printed journal. The physicality of the object: its weight, texture and smell all contribute to the experience of the reader. Inflection asserts that criticality is possible in any mode of expression – written or drawn, prose or poetry. Inflection is themed and encourages a plurality of opinions.

Author : Demos Shakarian,Elizabeth Sherrill,John L. Sherrill
Publisher : Hodder Christian Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Evangelists
ISBN : 0340908793

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The Happiest People on Earth by Demos Shakarian,Elizabeth Sherrill,John L. Sherrill Pdf

The amazing life of the Armenian dairyman who founded the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International, a unique ministry to men and women in the business world. It is a story to make you laugh, to make you cry and to build faith. Today, with several thousand chapters around the world, the Fellowship reaches more than a billion people a year with the life-changing message of Christ's love. This book brings the story of its founder and those around him into vivid colour and will inspire all those who read it.

Author : J. T. C Potter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0646984977

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The Governor of Pentridge by J. T. C Potter Pdf

¿Politicians make laws, police enforce the laws and judges stand in judgement. A Prison Officer is simply left with the fallout ...¿ ¿Hard time¿ didn't get any harder than being locked up behind the blue stone walls of Australia¿s most notorious maximum-security prison. We have heard plenty of stories from the prisoners of Pentridge but what about the tales of those who served on the other side of the bars? Only a special kind of Prison Officer had what it took to manage the hardest convicted criminals in the maze of different divisions at Pentridge. As a boy, John Beedon found himself on the wrong side of the law in the tough working-class streets of Birmingham and London. A judge gave him the choice of serving in the Royal Navy or going to jail himself. After seeing active service in the Bay of Pigs, he left the seven seas behind, emigrated to Australia and became a prison officer at Pentridge. These are a collection of tales from John¿s time at Pentridge. From Chopper, to riots, to dealing with mentally deranged serial killers, a Governor of Pentridge had to deal with it all. Some of these tales will make you laugh while others will bring a tear to your eye. These stories will add to the rich prison history of Australia, a colonial land built on the back of the incarcerated.