Bunbury Regional Prison

Bunbury Regional Prison

Infobox_Prisons
prison_name=Bunbury Regional Prison
location=Bunbury, Western Australia
status=Operational
classification=Mixed (Male)
capacity=188
opened=5 February 1971
closed=-
managed_by= Department of Corrective Services, Western Australia

Bunbury Regional Prison is an Australian 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, [cite news|title=Bunbury minimum security prison to get revamp|author=ABC News Online|date=2005-06-13|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/items/200507/1413029.htm|accessdate=2006-10-28] 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. [cite news|title=Personal alarms to protect prison staff|author=ABC News Online|date=2005-06-25|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/australia/wa/bunbury/200506/s1400502.htm|accessdate=2006-10-28]

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. [cite web|title=Media Statement – New approach a feature of Bunbury Regional Prison upgrade|first=John|last=D'Orazio|publisher=Government of Western Australia|date=2005-07-12|url=http://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/media/media.nsf/9dbd10dc05971ee348256a76000cc002/af02e2cf6ceb6b114825703c0029cb53?OpenDocument|accessdate=2006-10-28|accessdate=2006-10-28]

External links

* [http://www.correctiveservices.wa.gov.au/B/bunburyprison.aspx?uid=4004-0341-3196-2385 Bunbury Regional Prison]

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