‘A terrible place’: Pentridge prison opens for public tours

A former inmate at Pentridge prison says he was “terrified every day” he spent inside the infamous prison but is glad its history is being retained and opened to the public.

Ray Mooney, who served almost eight years from 1968 at Pentridge for rape, became the first person to start and complete a degree in an Australian prison and is now a successful playwright and author.

“It was a terrible place,” he told Neil Mitchell.

Press PLAY below to hear him open up about its horrors