| Description |
ix, 310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Summary |
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 has 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 this era, and to others who'd become notorious later, after H Division had worked it's magic on them |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
Scheduled to be published July 2015 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references: pages 305-308 |
| Audience |
Adult |
| Subject |
Pentridge Prison (Coburg, Vic.) -- History
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Prisoners -- Australia -- Coburg (Vic.)
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Prisons and prisoners, Australian
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Prisons -- Australia -- Coburg (Vic.)
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| ISBN |
9781760068547 |
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