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"Untitled" (Prisoner)
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Artist: Doug Russell, former B Division prisoner
Date of creation: January 1974
Doug Russell was sentenced for armed robbery. He created this painting depicting a prisoner while he was incarcerated in Pentridge's B Division.
Doug gifted his artwork to Barry Ellem who was a lecturer in the Applied Sociology Department at Caulfield Institute of Technology at the time. He took it to all his classes, to help his students understand what prison felt like.
Original location at Pentridge: B Division
Held in private collection.
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