$21.10
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
28 February 2018
Summary
Pentridge: An Insider’s Account of Life Behind the Bluestone Walls
When Don Osborne entered Pentridge in 1970, he stepped into a fully operational, 19th-century penal institution. Housing approximately 1200 inmates, the prison confined them to cramped stone cells, where they endured sweltering summers and freezing winters. Some cells even lacked basic necessities like sewerage or electric light.
Tasked with teaching in the prison’s high-security area, Don conducted his class…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760681029 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1760681024 |
| Author: | Don Osborne |
| Publisher: | Allen & Unwin |
| Imprint: | Echo Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 28 February 2018 |
| Weight: | 342g |
| Dimensions: | 41mm x 198mm x 193mm |
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About The Author
Don Osborne
Don Osborne was raised in Preston in the shadows of the mighty Pentridge Prison. He trained as a teacher at Melbourne Teacher’s College and taught for 30 years, including time in the early 1970s as an Education Officer at Pentridge Prison. A lifetime student of crime, he resides at Teesdale in country Victoria.
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