Risdon Prison Complex is an Australian medium to maximum security prison for males located in Risdon Vale near Hobart, Tasmania. The facility is operated...
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Hutchinson Women's Prison, formerly Risdon Women's Prison, an Australian minimum to maximum security prison for females, is located in Risdon Vale, Tasmania...
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Wales). Casuarina Prison – Special Handling Unit (SHU) (Perth, Western Australia) Risdon Prison Complex – 8 cell Tamar Unit (Risdon Vale, Tasmania) His...
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Rory Jack Thompson (category Murderers who died by suicide in prison custody)
sentenced to serve in prison on the grounds of insanity, but instead, was detained in a hospital attached to the Risdon Prison Complex for an unspecified...
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Women's Prison Risdon Prison Complex Acheron Boys Home Beechworth Correctional Centre Dame Phyllis Frost Centre Fulham Correctional Centre HM Prison Barwon...
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for the crime, Chopper ended up receiving a prison sentence of eight years at the Risdon Prison Complex that same year. According to Chopper's confession...
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former Australian prisons for adult males and females and youth detention centres for juveniles. Prisons listed as "museum" are former prisons that are now...
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Crime in Tasmania (section Prisons)
Launceston Reception Prison Mary Hutchinson Women's Prison Risdon Prison Complex Ron Barwick Minimum Security Prison List of prisons in Australia § Tasmania...
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sentences without parole. Since 2015, he has been imprisoned in the Risdon Prison Complex. Bryant was held in Royal Hobart Hospital under heavy police guard...
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the Special Operations Group and the emergency response team at Risdon Prison Complex are authorised to carry tasers. In August 2018, Tasmania Police...
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sit in Hobart. The Risdon Prison Complex (which includes the Mary Hutchinson Women's Prison and Barwick Minimum Security Prison) and Hobart Reception...
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Campbell Street Gaol (category Prison museums in Australia)
inmates were transferred to the H.M. Risdon Prison and in 1963, female inmates were transferred to the Risdon Women's Prison. Designed in the Georgian Renaissance...
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University. During his time at Melbourne University, Lewis designed Risdon Prison Complex circa 1960, and collaborated with Japanese architect Shigeru Yura...
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Wilfred Risdon (28 January 1896 – 11 March 1967) was a British trade union organizer, a founder member of the British Union of Fascists and an antivivisection...
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Port Arthur, Tasmania (redirect from Port Arthur Prison Colony)
wing of Risdon Prison in Hobart, Tasmania. Simon Alexander Fraser (1845–1934), Australian bagpiper, stock rider, and whip-maker Port Arthur Prison Colony...
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2023. Retrieved 18 August 2023. Weber, Martin A.; Ashworth, Michael T.; Risdon, R. Anthony; Brooke, Ivan; Malone, Marian; Sebire, Neil J. (2009). "Sudden...
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Howard Webb Fritz Feld as Vladimir Dukov Thurston Hall as Major Elisabeth Risdon as Mrs. Margaret Fletcher Granville Bates as Jim Fletcher James Burke as...
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by convicted bank robber Roy Earle, whose recent release from an Indiana prison was engineered by Big Mac's bribing the governor. Roy drives cross-country...
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Sydney, Greenway spent time in Newgate Prison, Bristol, where he completed paintings depicting scenes within the prison. Greenway arrived in Sydney, New South...
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Great Expectations (section London as prison)
convict Abel Magwitch. Great Expectations is full of extreme imagery—poverty, prison ships and chains, and fights to the death—and has a colourful cast of characters...
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Cockatoo Island (category Prison islands)
In 1869, the convicts were relocated to Darlinghurst Gaol and the prison complex became an Industrial School for Girls and also a Reformatory. Shipbuilding...
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in 1788. The majority of early bushrangers were convicts who had escaped prison, or from the properties of landowners to whom they had been assigned as...
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Norfolk Island (category Prison museums in Australia)
in 1775 halted penal transportation to the Thirteen Colonies, British prisons started to overcrowd. Several stopgap measures proved ineffective, and...
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was now searching for an alternative. The temporary solution of floating prison hulks had reached capacity and was a public health hazard, while the option...
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Vaucluse House (section House complex)
room is being redesigned to enhance visitors' understanding of the site's complex history. The results will be unveiled in April 2017. This is a display...
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Parramatta Female Factory and Institutions Precinct (category Women's prisons in Australia)
Robert Willson, in 1863 described the asylum as "a frightful old factory prison at Parramatta, with its doleful cells and its iron bar doors, even for women"...
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built in the 1940s. With the construction of the nearby Westmead Hospital complex public hospital services in Parramatta were reduced but after refurbishment...
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19). The configuration of the buildings forming the Government House complex are the same in both Brambilla sketches. The northern outbuilding appears...
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Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney (category Prison museums in Australia)
on the corner of Macquarie Street and Prince Albert Road, Sydney. The complex is bounded by high walls on the south and western sides. The northern and...
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