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Pentridge prison raises the difficult question of how to treat a violent history
Barry York remembers laying on the bed in his tiny cell at Melbourne’s Pentridge prison and hearing prisoners being beaten by guards.
“You would hear the thuds, the kicks, the screams; men screaming out ‘stop’,” he tells ABC RN’s The History Listen.
It was 1972 and Mr York was 21 years old.
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