Bunbury Regional Prison
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Bunbury Regional Prison is an Australia
n prison
located in Davenport, a southern suburb of Bunbury
, Western Australia
. It opened in 1971, and the minimum-security block was commissioned in 1982. Self-care units added in 1992 allowed some prisoners to do their own cooking and cleaning.
Offenders are expected to work or study, and can access the prison’s education and employment facilities. In the education centre, prisoners can study subjects from basic adult literacy and numeracy to a wide range of TAFE subjects and courses. A feature of the prison is a market garden which supplies a large proportion of fresh vegetables consumed in the State’s prisons. It is the major employer of minimum-security prisoners and off-sets the cost of managing prisons in the State.
The prison found itself in the news in 2005, when two minimum-security inmates escaped. Additionally sex offender Paul Stephen Keating held a female art tutor hostage for over six hours and during this time sexually assaulted her. Not long after these incidents, the State Government announced that Bunbury would be the first regional prison to have personal duress alarms for staff.
In July 2005, then Justice Minister John D'Orazio
announced a $9.6million upgrade of Bunbury Regional Prison to improve its security and to improve offender rehabilitation.
In Sep 2008 a new Pre Release Unit was opened to house minimum security prisoners, the size of this unit was 72 beds.
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Prison
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located in Davenport, a southern suburb of Bunbury
Bunbury, Western Australia
The port city of Bunbury is the third largest city in Western Australia after the State Capital Perth and Mandurah. It is situated south of Perth's central business district...
, Western Australia
Western Australia
Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
. It opened in 1971, and the minimum-security block was commissioned in 1982. Self-care units added in 1992 allowed some prisoners to do their own cooking and cleaning.
Offenders are expected to work or study, and can access the prison’s education and employment facilities. In the education centre, prisoners can study subjects from basic adult literacy and numeracy to a wide range of TAFE subjects and courses. A feature of the prison is a market garden which supplies a large proportion of fresh vegetables consumed in the State’s prisons. It is the major employer of minimum-security prisoners and off-sets the cost of managing prisons in the State.
The prison found itself in the news in 2005, when two minimum-security inmates escaped. Additionally sex offender Paul Stephen Keating held a female art tutor hostage for over six hours and during this time sexually assaulted her. Not long after these incidents, the State Government announced that Bunbury would be the first regional prison to have personal duress alarms for staff.
In July 2005, then Justice Minister John D'Orazio
John D'Orazio
John Biase D'Orazio was a Western Australian politician. A pharmacist by trade, he served as mayor of the City of Bayswater from 1983 until 2000, then was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly electorate of Ballajura in 2001, where he served until 2008.Elected as a member of the...
announced a $9.6million upgrade of Bunbury Regional Prison to improve its security and to improve offender rehabilitation.
In Sep 2008 a new Pre Release Unit was opened to house minimum security prisoners, the size of this unit was 72 beds.