Acacia Prison is located on Whadjuk Noongar land in the suburb of Wooroloo, Perth, Western Australia. The facility is a medium-security prison for adult males. Acacia Prison opened in May 2001. The facility is owned by the Department of Justice and the operation of the prison has been contracted to the private company, Serco. It …
Albany Regional Prison is located on Minang land, in Albany, Western Australia. Albany is a receival prison for men and women from local courts or police for the Great Southern Region. Men may continue to reside there on remand, or after sentence, but women are transferred to a prison in Perth. It is also Western …
Bandyup Women’s Prison is located on Whadjuk Noongar land, in the suburb of West Swan, Perth, Western Australia. Bandyup is the state’s primary prison for women prisoners. The prison is also responsible for accommodating women prisoners with complex needs, including many who are on remand. Bandyup opened in 1970 as the state’s first separate women’s …
Banksia Hill Detention Centre is located on Whadjuk Noongar land, in the suburb of Canning Vale, Perth, Western Australia. Banksia Hill is a maximum-security facility that holds sentenced and unsentenced boys and girls from all regions of Western Australia. Unsentenced young people there can range from 10 to 17 years of age. Banksia Hill opened …
Boronia Pre-release Centre for Women is located on Whadjuk Noongar land, in the suburb of Bentley, Perth, Western Australia. Boronia is a minimum-security prison for women with a focus on reintegration. The facility has provisions for children to live with their mothers until the age of four, and for older children up to the age …
Broome Regional Prison is located on Jukun land in Broome, Western Australia. Broome manages remand and sentenced prisoner of all security ratings. The prison population is predominantly Aboriginal men from across the Kimberley region, but a small unit is usually set aside for female prisoners. Broome also manages the Wyndham Work Camp. Broome is the …
Bunbury Regional Prison is located on Kaniyang land in the suburb of College Grove, Western Australia. Bunbury is a multi-security prison. Its maximum-security unit (Unit 1) accommodates those on remand and/or those rated maximum-security for short periods of time. It has three medium-security units (Units 2, 3 and 6) and two minimum-security units – Unit …
Casuarina Prison is located on Wadjuk Noongar land, 35 kilometres south of Perth. Casuarina Prison is a maximum-security prison for male prisoners. Originally intended primarily for sentenced prisoners, it now also holds a significant number of remand prisoners. It also provides specialist statewide services in the Special Handling Unit, Special Protection Unit, Infirmary, Crisis Care …
Under the Court Security and Custodial Services Act 1999 (the Act), all Western Australian court custody centres and the Fiona Stanley Hospital secure facility are managed by private contractors. The Act defines a court custody centre as that part of the court’s premises where people in custody are detained. Sentenced prisoners, people remanded in custody, …
Eastern Goldfields Regional Prison is located on Wangkathaa land, in South Boulder, Western Australia. Eastern Goldfields is a minimum– and medium–security prison for men and women. It services the Goldfields district from Wiluna in the north to Esperance on the south coast, and the 13 remote Ngaanyatjarra Aboriginal communities east to the South Australian and …
Greenough Regional Prison is located on Amangu land, in Geraldton, Western Australia. The prison holds people of all security classifications, minimum, medium, and maximum (remand only). It houses men and women, sentenced and on remand. A high proportion of the prisoners are Aboriginal. Greenough Regional Prison opened in 1984 as a minimum-security prison. It was …
Hakea Prison is located on Whadjuk Noongar land in the suburb of Canning Vale, Perth, Western Australia. Hakea is the main receival and assessments prison for adult male prisoners in the Perth metropolitan region. Hakea Prison incorporates the former Canning Vale Prison and the CW Campbell Remand Centre. Canning Vale Prison was originally opened in …
Karnet Prison Farm is located on Whadjuk Noongar land, 78 kilometres south of Perth. Karnet is a minimum-security prison for adult males, with a focus on preparing prisoners to re-enter the community. Karnet is a working farm, and a vital link in the Department of Justice’s food supply chain. The farm includes an abattoir and …
Melaleuca Women’s Prison is located on Whadjuk Noongar land, in the suburb of Canning Vale, Perth, Western Australia. Melaleuca is a maximum-security remand and receival prison for adult women in the Perth metropolitan area. In 2016, units 11 and 12 of Hakea Prison (the state’s main remand and receival prison for men) were converted into …
Pardelup Prison Farm is located on Minang land, in Mount Barker, Western Australia. Pardelup is a minimum-security prison for adult males, with a focus on preparing prisoners to re-enter the community. As a working farm, Pardelup breeds cattle and sheep, and produces fruit and vegetables for consumption by the prison population in Western Australia. Pardelup …
Roebourne Regional Prison is located on Ngarluma land, in Roebourne, Western Australia. Roebourne is the receival facility for adult men and women in the Pilbara region who are on remand, sentenced or returned to prison. Roebourne holds medium and minimum-security prisoners for longer periods, but maximum-security prisoners are only held on a short-term basis. It …
Unit 18 within Casuarina Prison is located on Whadjuk Noongar land, in the suburb of Casuarina, Perth. In July 2022, following persistent destruction of cells and other infrastructure, Unit 18 within Casuarina Prison was gazetted as a youth detention centre to temporarily house disruptive male detainees. Prior to this, Banksia Hill Detention Centre was the …
Wandoo Rehabilitation Prison is located on Whadjuk Noongar land, in the suburb of Murdoch, Western Australia. Wandoo is Western Australia’s first alcohol and other drugs rehabilitation prison for adult females. Cyrenian House is the service provider and delivers alcohol and drug therapy in a modified therapeutic community to female residents. Before the prison was opened …
West Kimberley Regional Prison is located on Nyikina land, in Derby, Western Australia. West Kimberley was built to be the main custodial facility for the Kimberley region. It can hold remand and sentenced men and women of all security levels. The prison’s ethos was to have an innovative Aboriginal focus, hold Kimberley prisoners in …
Wooroloo Prison Farm is located on Whadjuk Noongar land, Wooroloo, Western Australia. Wooroloo is a minimum-security prison for adult males operated by the Department of Justice. Wooroloo was built in 1914 as a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients. In 1960 it was transformed into a district hospital which closed in 1970. It was then converted to …