Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Pentridge prison is unlocking its gates to the public with the launch of tours around the infamous H or “Hell” division and former B ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Liam Lees was fascinated by the locks on the heavy metal doors of the cells in what was once Victoria’s most notorious prison block. H ...

Australia’s last execution took place there (Ronald Ryan in 1967), as well as the last flogging. From 1850 to 1997, Pentridge loomed over Melbourne, and became a byword across Australia for the ...

For almost 150 years the notorious HM Prison Pentridge caged the city’s most violent criminals and sadistic monsters. Here’s the ‘Bluestone College’ dishonour role. Australia’s most famous criminal ...

Pentridge prison has a notorious reputation for housing some of the country’s worst criminals and now you can step back in time to see exactly what it was like. The National Trust Victoria is opening ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The forbidding bluestone walls of Pentridge, which were quarried and built by its first inmates, now contain a housing estate. While ...

The main gate to the former Pentridge jail, now leading to upscale apartments, shops and a cinema complex.Credit: Josh Robenstone This story is part of the August 30 edition of Good Weekend.See all 17 ...