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Twenty-six years after the closure of the infamous Australian prison known as Pentridge, a luxury hotel is offering customers the chance to stay in the “world's first urban wellness retreat in a ...
Garry David's sickening act inside Melbourne's Pentridge prison that saw him locked up without committing a crime is revealed for the first time 1,000 years of common law rejected to keep one man ...
Pentridge Prison in Coburg, in Melbourne's north, has been partially converted into a luxury urban retreat named The Interlude. The old B Division of the prison, ...
Melbourne’s Pentridge Prison: stay at the jail turned luxury hotel The Interlude. The transformation of one of Australia’s worst prisons — once home to Ned Kelly and Chopper Read — into a ...
With its cinema, vibrant food precinct, and sprawling new bar and beer garden, it can be easy to forget that Coburg’s Pentridge Prison was just that.. But in March, a new set of immersive, ...
Pentridge prison is unlocking its gates to the public with the launch of tours around the infamous H or “Hell” division and former B division.. The confronting experience will retell the ...
­Pentridge: Voices from the Other Side tells the story of a prison where humanity was tested and men and women treated with routine brutality­. He wrote an introduction for each of the ...
Pentridge closed as a prison in 1997. Brisbane-based Shayher Group, part of the giant Taiwanese apartment developer Par Jar Group, acquired the northern half of the prison site in 2013.
A former inmate at Pentridge prison says he was “terrified every day” he spent inside the infamous prison but is glad its history is being retained and opened to the public. Ray Mooney, who served ...
North & Common, the new restaurant at Pentridge Prison, is fittingly located in the repurposed penitentiary’s former mess hall. The eatery, which was designed by Chada, has an old-meets-new ...