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vic-prison-locations

prison_name string	address string	town string	phone string	operational_capacity int64	security string	map_ref string	profile string	link string
Ararat Prison	Warrack Road	Ararat	(+61 3) 5352 0500	382	Medium	56, H6 or 227, N7	HM Ararat Prison is located 200 km west of Melbourne. It provides accommodation for prisoners with low to medium security protection requirements, including a high proportion of sex offenders (50 per cent) and protection or special needs prisoners (50 per cent).	http://www.justice.vic.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/justlib/doj+internet/home/prisons/visiting+prisons/getting+to+prisons/justice+-+getting+to+prisons+-+ararat+prison
Barwon Prison	1140 Bacchus Marsh Road	Lara	(+61 3) 5220 8222	367	Maximum	Pg.421, K1	HM Barwon Prison provides accommodation and services for mainstream, maximum security prisoners. The prison includes the high security Acacia Unit, the protection units Banksia and Hoya, and mainstream units, Cassia, Diosma and Eucalypt.	http://www.justice.vic.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/justlib/doj+internet/home/prisons/visiting+prisons/getting+to+prisons/justice+-+getting+to+prisons+-+barwon+prison
Dhurringile Prison	Murchison Road,	Murchison	(+ 61 3) 5824 8800	160	Minimum	Map 46, E2	HM Dhurringile Prison is a pre-release prison where prisoners undertake both on-site employment and meaningful community reparation via community assistance programs.	http://www.justice.vic.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/justlib/doj+internet/home/prisons/visiting+prisons/getting+to+prisons/justice+-+getting+to+prisons+-+dhurringile+prison
Judy Lazarus Transition Centre	50 Adderley Street,	West Melbourne	(+61 3) 9320 7888	25	Minimum	Map 2E, J2	The Centre provides a supervised pathway back into society for selected prisoners nearing the end of their sentence. It is named after Judy Lazarus, a prominent advocate of prisoner resettlement and former CEO of the Victorian Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders.	http://www.justice.vic.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/justlib/doj+internet/home/prisons/visiting+prisons/getting+to+prisons/justice+-+getting+to+prisons+-+judy+lazarus+transition+centre
Loddon Prison	Matheson Street	Castlemaine	(+61 3) 5471 1211	390	Medium	Map 59, E3 or Map 287, U9	HM Loddon Prison is a mainstream prison focusing on release preparation and drug rehabilitation. It also offers placement and support for HIV positive prisoners and release preparation for intellectually disabled prisoners.	http://www.justice.vic.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/justlib/doj+internet/home/prisons/visiting+prisons/getting+to+prisons/justice+-+getting+to+prisons+-+loddon+prison
Beechworth Correctional Centre	494 Flat Rock Road	Beechworth	(+61 3) 5728 0055	120	Minimum	null	Beechworth Correctional Centre focuses on reparation and pre-release activities - helping prisoners reintegrate into the community when they are released. The prison design complements its rural setting and its environment reflects life in the general community as much as possible, offering prisoners similar structures...	null
Dame Phyllis Frost Centre	Riding-Boundary Road	Deer Park	(+61 3) 9217 8400	260	Maximum	null	The Dame Phyllis Frost Centre (DPFC) provides maximum security, medium security and specialist accommodation for remanded and sentenced women prisoners.	null
Fulham Correctional Centre	Hopkins Road	West Sale	(+61 3) 5142 3800	845	Medium/Minimum	null	Fulham Correctional Centre accommodates predominantly mainstream prisoners and includes a drug and alcohol treatment unit and a protection unit. The prison is operated by a private operator The GEO Group Australia Pty Ltd (previously Australasian Correctional Management)	null
Langi Kal Kal Prison	Western Highway	Trawalla	(+61 3) 5349 4900	122	Minimum	null	HM Prison Langi Kal Kal houses minimum security prisoners with low-to-medium protection requirements. It is a large working farm and is a minimum security pathway for protection prisoners from Ararat Prison.	null
Marngoneet Correctional Centre	1170 Bacchus Marsh Road	Lara	(+61 3) 5282 0600	306	Medium	null	The Marngoneet Correctional Centre is a 300 bed, medium security facility, providing intensive treatment and offender management programs for males who are at moderate to high risk of reoffending, and who have a minimum of six months of their sentence left to serve when they arrive there.	null
Melbourne Assessment Prison	317 Spencer Street	West Melbourne	(+61 3) 9321 4111	286	Maximum	null	HM Melbourne Assessment Prison (MAP) facility provides statewide assessment and orientation services for all male prisoners received into the prison system.	null
Metropolitan Remand Centre	Middle Road	Ravenhall	(+61 3) 9217 7777	663	Maximum	null	Metropolitan Remand Centre is Victoria's major remand facility. It is a 600-bed, purpose built, maximum security facility for un-sentenced male prisoners. The facility makes it possible to separate sentenced and un-sentenced prisoners, so far as practicable. This aligns with the United Nations and international standar...	null
Port Phillip Prison	Corner Doherty and Palmers Roads	Truganina	(+61 3) 9217 7200	745	Maximum	null	The facility provides remand, sentenced, mainstream, protection and specialist accommodation for high, maximum and medium security prisoners. It is run by a private operator G4S Australia Pty Ltd.	null
Tarrengower Prison	Corner Baringhup and Nuggety Roads	Maldon	(+61 3) 5479 8200	54	Minimum	null	HM Prison Tarrengower is a minimum security women's prison with an emphasis on release preparation and community integration.	null
*Operational capacity as at 30 June 2009	null	null	null	null	null	null	null	null

Prison locations and capacity, Victoria, 2009

The 14 prisons and correctional centres in Victoria with their address, security level and operational capacity as at 30 June 2009.

This is a copy of the 2013-05-12 version of this dataset on publicdata.au, where it has 15 rows and 9 fields. The same version is kept at https://publicdata.au/d/vic-prison-locations/v/2013-05-12/ in 9 formats, with every earlier version and a query API.

Attribution

The data is published by Department of Justice (Victoria) under CC BY 3.0 AU, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/. The licence requires this attribution:

Department of Justice (Victoria), Victorian Government, Prison Locations (Victoria), sourced 3 October 2026, https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/prison-locations-victoria, licensed under CC BY 3.0 AU.

To cite this version, including where it was serialised:

Department of Justice (Victoria), Victorian Government, Prison Locations (Victoria), sourced 3 October 2026, https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/prison-locations-victoria, licensed under CC BY 3.0 AU. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-prison-locations/v/2013-05-12/

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Versions

publicdata.au keeps a new version each time the publisher changes the source file, and lists them all at https://publicdata.au/d/vic-prison-locations/versions.json. This repository tags each version it holds as v<date>, so load_dataset("National-Digital/vic-prison-locations", revision="v2013-05-12") always returns these rows.

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https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-prison-locations/rows?limit=10

Fields

Field	Type	Description
`prison_name`	string	Prison Name
`address`	string	Address
`town`	string	Town
`phone`	string	Phone
`operational_capacity`	integer	The number of prisoners the facility could hold as at 30 June 2009.
`security`	string	Security
`map_ref`	string	A street directory map reference.
`profile`	string	Profile
`link`	string	Link for further info

publicdata.json beside the data names the version, licence, attribution and the SHA-256 of the publisher's file it was built from.

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