Karnet Prison Farm
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Karnet Prison Farm is a minimum-security Western Australian prison located in Keysbrook State Forest, 78 kilometres (48 mi) south of Perth,[1] in the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale.[2]
Location | Serpentine, Western Australia |
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Coordinates | 32.4397°S 116.0772°E / -32.4397; 116.0772 |
Status | Operational |
Security class | Minimum (male) |
Capacity | 360 (as of 2019) |
Opened | March 1963 |
Managed by | Department of Justice, Western Australia |
Warden | Superintendent: Alan Clements |
The prison farm is located on a 375-hectare (927-acre) property and produces most of the vegetables, meat, milk, and eggs for Western Australia's prisons.[3][4] It has an abattoir, a dairy, a poultry farm, and an orchard and hydroponic gardens.[5][6]
The location was made a prison in 1963,[7][8] and was formerly a facility for the treatment of alcoholics.[1]
It houses male prisoners, and has an inmate population of 360 as of 2019.[5] It is a pre-release facility,[5] open only to prisoners with less than five years to their earliest possible release date,[4] and so aims to prepare prisoners for re-entrance into society after their incarceration.[9]
Notable past inmates include Alan Bond and Jimmy Krakouer.[3]