HM Prison Barwon

Infobox_Prisons
prison_name=Barwon Prison
location=Lara, Victoria
status=Operational
security=Maximumcapacity=428
opened=January, 1990
closed=-
managed_by=Corrections Victoria

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.

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 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 risk prisoners. Many are or were convicted of offences related to the Gangland war.

* Banksia:Protection unit for prisoners requiring close supervision or protection. 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 honour unit and is drug free.

*Grevillea:Opened in April 2003, housing maximum security prisoners.

Notable prisoners

* Mario Condello, disgraced former lawyer, drug trafficker and underworld figure (released and murdered)
*Ashley Coulston, triple murderer
* Bandali Debs, convicted of the Silk-Miller murders
* Paul Denyer, the Frankston serial killer
* Peter Dupas, convicted multiple murderer and rapist.
* Keith Faure, convicted murderer
* Evangelos Goussis, convicted murderer
* Domenic Gatto, Melbourne underworld figure (released)
* Brian Keith Jones, convicted of the abduction and sexual assault of six children (released)
* Julian Knight, convicted of the 1987 Hoddle Street massacre
* Francesco Mangione, convicted killer in Mr Whippy turf war
* Craig Minogue, Russell Street bomber
* John Sharpe, convicted of the double spear gun murders of his wife and child in 2005.
* Matthew Wales, 2002 Society Murders in Glen Iris, Victoria
* Carl Williams, convicted murderer, drug dealer and manufacturer. Most famous for Melbourne's gangland war.
* Tony Mokbel, Melbourne underworld figure.

References

*http://www.justice.vic.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/DOJ+Internet/Home/Prisons/Prisons+in+Victoria/JUSTICE+-+Prison+Profiles+-+Barwon+Prison

External links

* [http://www.justice.vic.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/DOJ+Internet/Home/Prisons/Prisons+in+Victoria/JUSTICE+-+Prison+Profiles+-+Barwon+Prison Department of Justice] : Prison Profiles - Barwon Prison