Ex-prisoner buys his jail cell

by ppeggy | October 31, 2007 at 05:32 pm | 219 views | add comment
jail cell to become wine cellar
A former prisoner in Australia has decided to buy his own jail cell.
 
Graeme Alford spent several years in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne, for embezzlement and robbery.
 
But he is not planning to actually live in the cell again. It is being turned into a wine storage facility as part of the prison's commercial redevelopment.
 
Mr Alford, a former barrister, said the purchase was "purely an investment" as he swore to stop drinking after his release in 1980.
 
Before its closure in 1997, Pentridge prison was Australia's most notorious jail.
 
It housed hardened criminals and murderers and was the site of the country's last hanging in 1967.
 

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