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Karnet Prison

Location in Western Australia
Location	Serpentine, Western Australia
Coordinates	32°26′23″S 116°04′38″E / 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

Karnet Prison Farm is a minimum-security Western Australian prison located in Keysbrook State Forest, 78 kilometres (48 mi) south of Perth, in the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale.

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. It has an abattoir, a dairy, a poultry farm, and an orchard and hydroponic gardens.

The location was made a prison in 1963, and was formerly a facility for the treatment of alcoholics.

It houses male prisoners, and has an inmate population of 360 as of 2019. It is a pre-release facility, open only to prisoners with less than five years to their earliest possible release date, and therefore aims to prepare prisoners for re-entrance into society after their incarceration.

Notable past inmates include Alan Bond and Jimmy Krakouer.

References

1. ^ Office of the Inspector of Custodial Services. "Report of an Announced Inspection of Karnet Prison Farm" (PDF). Retrieved 3 December 2021.
2. Office of the Inspector of Custodial Services. "Report of an Announced Inspection of Karnet Prison Farm April/May 2001" (PDF).
3. ^ "Go behind at Karnet Prison". 28 March 2013. Archived from the original on 29 March 2013.
4. ^ Campbell, Kate (17 May 2016). "Perth jails: What life is like for inmates at WA's Karnet Prison Farm". PerthNow. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
5. ^ Office of the Inspector of Custodial Services. "2019 Inspection of Karnet Prison Farm" (PDF).
6. Murphy, Sean (19 February 2012). "Inside job". ABC Landline. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
7. "In Western Australia This Week". The Canberra Times. Vol. 36, no. 10, 049. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 20 October 1961. p. 2. Retrieved 24 October 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
8. Western Australia. Department of Corrective Services (2013), Karnet Prison Farm 1963 to 2013 : celebrating 50 years of making a positive difference, Department of Corrective Services, retrieved 24 October 2016
9. "Karnet Prison Farm". Correctiveservices.wa.gov.au. Retrieved 24 November 2021.

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