HM Prison Barwon
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HM Prison Barwon is a maximum security Australian prison
located at 1140 Bacchus Marsh Road, 6 km from the township of Lara
, (near Geelong), Victoria
, Australia
. Barwon provides accommodation and services for maximum security mainstream prisoners including a 20-bed facility for high security prisoners and a 60-bed facility for maximum security protection prisoners. Barwon was built to cater for demand due to the recent closures of HM Prison Geelong
in 1991 and HM Prison Pentridge
in 1997. A campus of the Gordon Institute of TAFE
operates at the prison providing a corrections education program.
Barwon is located adjacent to the newly built 300 bed medium security Marngoneet Correctional Centre
, opened in 2006.
Prison
A prison is a place in which people are physically confined and, usually, deprived of a range of personal freedoms. Imprisonment or incarceration is a legal penalty that may be imposed by the state for the commission of a crime...
located at 1140 Bacchus Marsh Road, 6 km from the township of Lara
Lara, Victoria
Lara is a residential rural suburb, 15 km north-east of Geelong, inland from the Princes Freeway to Melbourne.- History :The explorers Hume and Hovell arrived at Lara on December 16, 1824, believing that they had reached Westernport Bay...
, (near Geelong), Victoria
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. Barwon provides accommodation and services for maximum security mainstream prisoners including a 20-bed facility for high security prisoners and a 60-bed facility for maximum security protection prisoners. Barwon was built to cater for demand due to the recent closures of HM Prison Geelong
HM Prison Geelong
HM Prison Geelong was a maximum security Australia prison located on the corner of Myers Street and Swanston Street in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. The prison was built in stages from 1849 to 1864. Its panopticon design is based on Pentonville Prison in England...
in 1991 and HM Prison Pentridge
HM Prison Pentridge
HM Prison Pentridge was an Australian prison built in 1850 in Coburg, Victoria. The first prisoners arrived in 1851. The prison officially closed on 1 May 1997....
in 1997. A campus of the Gordon Institute of TAFE
Gordon Institute of TAFE
The Gordon Institute of TAFE is the TAFE institute servicing Geelong since 1888. It has 26,000 students studying on-campus, off-campus and in business or industry ....
operates at the prison providing a corrections education program.
Barwon is located adjacent to the newly built 300 bed medium security Marngoneet Correctional Centre
Marngoneet Correctional Centre
Marngoneet Correctional Centre is a medium security Australian prison in Lara, Victoria, Australia, located adjacent to maximum security HM Prison Barwon. Marngoneet Correctional Centre officially opened on 3 March 2006.-See also:*HM Prison Barwon...
, opened in 2006.
History
Construction of the prison commenced in 1986. It was completed in October 1989 and the first prisoners were received in January 1990. Barwon is the only Victorian maximum security prison located outside the Melbourne metropolitan area.Accommodation units
The prison is split into many separate units.- Acacia
- A high security unit. Also used to accommodate high riskRiskRisk is the potential that a chosen action or activity will lead to a loss . The notion implies that a choice having an influence on the outcome exists . Potential losses themselves may also be called "risks"...
prisoners. Many are or were convicted of offences related to the Gangland warMelbourne gangland killingsThe Melbourne gangland killings were the murders in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia of 36 criminal figures or partners between 16 January 1998 and 13 August 2010. The murders were in a series of retributional murders involving various underworld groups. The deaths caused a sustained power vacuum...
.
- Banksia
- Protection unit for prisoners requiring close supervision or protectionSafetySafety is the state of being "safe" , the condition of being protected against physical, social, spiritual, financial, political, emotional, occupational, psychological, educational or other types or consequences of failure, damage, error, accidents, harm or any other event which could be...
. Most cells in this unit are shared with two prisoners per cell. The Banksia unit is separated into three smaller units
- Coast
- Heath
- Waratah
- Hoya
- Protection unit.
- Cassia
- Mainstream unit which houses new prisoners.
- Diosma
- A mainstream unit which accommodates prison workers.
- Eucalypt
- A mainstream unit used to house older, more settled long term prisoners. The unit is known as an honourHonourHonour or honor is an abstract concept entailing a perceived quality of worthiness and respectability that affects both the social standing and the self-evaluation of an individual or corporate body such as a family, school, regiment or nation...
unit and is drugPsychoactive drugA psychoactive drug, psychopharmaceutical, or psychotropic is a chemical substance that crosses the blood–brain barrier and acts primarily upon the central nervous system where it affects brain function, resulting in changes in perception, mood, consciousness, cognition, and behavior...
free.
- Grevillea
- Opened in April 2003, housing maximum security prisoners.
Notable prisoners
- Mario CondelloMario CondelloMario Condello was an Italian-Australian organized crime figure. Condello, once a lawyer, was a member of the Carlton Crew, who is believed to have been a money launderer for Melbourne's Calabrian mafia...
, former lawyer, drug trafficker and underworld figure (released and murdered) - Ashley CoulstonAshley CoulstonAshley Mervyn Coulston is an Australian sailor and triple murderer currently serving life imprisonment without parole for the 1992 murders of three people in Burwood, Victoria and the attempted abduction and robbery of a couple in St Kilda Road several months later.It would be the abduction attempt...
, triple murderer - Paul DenyerPaul DenyerPaul Charles Denyer is an Australian serial killer, currently serving three consecutive sentences of life imprisonment with a non-parole period 30 years at HM Prison Barwon for the murders of Elizabeth Stevens, 18, Debbie Fream, 22, and Natalie Russell, 17, in Frankston, Victoria in 1993.Denyer is...
, the Frankston serial killer - Peter DupasPeter DupasPeter Norris Dupas is an Australian serial killer, currently serving three consecutive life sentences for murder. His violent criminal history spans more than three decades, and with every release from prison has been known to commit further crimes against women with increasing levels of violence...
, convicted multiple murderer and rapist - Keith FaureKeith FaureKeith George Faure , from Norlane, Victoria, is an Australian career criminal, convicted of multiple murders and manslaughters. He is currently serving life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 19 years for his role in two murders related to the Melbourne gangland killings...
, convicted murderer - Domenic GattoDomenic GattoDomenic "Mick" Gatto is an Italian-Australian criminal and is known for his involvement in the Melbourne underworld.Gatto is a 'professional mediator' within the building industry in Melbourne...
, Melbourne underworld figure (released) - Evangelos GoussisEvangelos GoussisEvangelos Goussis, is an Australian former boxer and kickboxer from Geelong, Victoria, and is a multiple murderer, guilty of the murders of two victims of the Melbourne gangland killings...
, convicted murderer - Brian Keith JonesBrian Keith JonesBrian Keith Jones, formerly known as Whispen, is an Australian who was convicted of the abduction and sexual assault of six male children between 1979 and 1980. Jones was given the nickname Mr Baldy for shaving his victims' hair and dressing them in female clothing during the attacks...
, convicted of the abduction and sexual assault of six children (released) - Julian KnightJulian KnightJulian Knight is the mass murderer who on 9 August 1987, shot dead seven people and injured 19 during a shooting spree in Clifton Hill, Victoria, Australia, in what became known in Australian history as the Hoddle Street Massacre....
, convicted of the 1987 Hoddle Street massacreHoddle Street massacreThe Hoddle Street massacre is a spree killing that occurred on the evening of Sunday, 9 August 1987 in Hoddle Street, Clifton Hill, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia.The shootings resulted in the deaths of seven people, and serious injury to 19 others... - Francesco MangioneFrancesco MangioneFrancesco Mangione is an Australian, convicted of the murder of his 26 year old cousin, Denis Giunta on 5 February 2002 in his Williamstown home.-Early life:Mangione, of Moonee Ponds, Victoria was born 23 July 1957 in Sicily. In 1969 he came to Australia...
, convicted killer in Mr Whippy turf war - Craig MinogueCraig MinogueCraig W. J. 'Slim' Minogue is an Australian prisoner, convicted for the 1986 bombing of the Russell Street Police Headquarters in Russell Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 27 March 1986. In 1988, Minogue was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a non-parole period of 30 years...
, Russell Street bomberRussell Street BombingThe Russell Street Bombing refers to the 27 March 1986 bombing of the Russell Street Police Headquarters complex in Russell Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia... - Tony MokbelTony MokbelAntonios Sajih 'Tony' Mokbel is an Australian from Melbourne, Australia, who was a fugitive until his recapture in Athens, Greece on 5 June 2007. He is of Lebanese descent and born in Kuwait. Detectives from Operation Purana allege that he is the mastermind behind the Melbourne amphetamines trade...
, Melbourne underworld figure - John SharpeJohn Sharpe (Australian murderer)The Sharpe family murders was a March 2004 Australian double murder, in which John Sharpe killed his pregnant wife, Anna, and his nineteen-month old daughter Gracie, in the Melbourne suburb of Mornington...
, convicted of the double spear gun murders of his wife and child in 2005 - Matthew Wales, 2002 Society MurdersSociety MurdersThe Society Murders was the name given to the 4 April 2002 murders of husband and wife millionaire socialites Margaret Mary Wales-King, 69, and husband, Paul Aloysius King, 75 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, by their son, Matthew Wales...
in Glen Iris, VictoriaGlen Iris, VictoriaGlen Iris is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area are the Cities of Boroondara and Stonnington... - Carl Williams, convicted murderer, drug dealer and manufacturer (died in custody)
External links
- Department of Justice: Prison Profiles - Barwon Prison