HM Prison Pentridge
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HM Prison Pentridge, better known as the Pentridge Prison and officially, Her Majesty's Prison Pentridge, is a former prison in Coburg, an inner northern suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. T
The gates of the former prison in 2020
The entrance to Pentridge Prison, 1861 (Source: State Library of Victoria)
Pentridge Prison front gate, 2006
HM Prison Pentridge guard tower, 2014
Ronald Ryan
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Ronald Joseph Ryan 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
HM Prison Pentridge
…Australia, who was hanged. After being convicted of killing prison officer George Hodson during an escape from Pentridge, at 8:00 am on 3 February 1967 Ronald Ryan became the last person to be executed at Pentridge and the last person executed in Australia. Ryan was hanged in D Division and his body was buried in…
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