HM Prison Fairlea

HM Prison Fairlea

HM Prison Fairlea was an Australian female prison located on Yarra Bend Drive in the suburb of Fairfield, Victoria, Australia. [cite book | last = Nicholson | first = John | title = Australia Locked Up | publisher = Allen & Unwin | date = 2006 | pages = 25 | url = http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nif-qWQerpQC&pg=PA25&dq=Prison+Fairlea+-wikipedia&as_brr=3&sig=Nfd62vFg8W0fkCTyVepafFevItk#PPA25,M1 | isbn = 1741146097] It was built on the site of the Yarra Bend Asylum, [cite book | last = Greig | first = Deidre N. | title = Neither Bad Nor Mad: The Competing Discourses of Psychiatry, Law and Politics | publisher = Jessica Kingsley Publishers | date = 2002 | location = | pages = 21 | url = http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hKLM4tyF7JwC&pg=PA21&dq=Yarra+Bend+Asylum+prison+women&sig=QfMTzB8-aP1nZAzMQ27OvyjipA4 | isbn = 1843100061] with remnants of the walls and gates being used in the layout of the prison. The prison has since been demolished.

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