Corrections Victoria is the Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

n government department established in 2003, responsible for Victoria's corrections system. Corrections Victoria manages approximately 50 Community Correctional Centres in Victoria and is also responsible for the management of the states public prison

Prison

A prison is a place in which people are physically confined and, usually, deprived of a range of personal freedoms. Imprisonment or incarceration is a legal penalty that may be imposed by the state for the commission of a crime...

s as well as overseeing the contracts of privately operated prisons. It is part of the Department of Justice

Department of Justice (Victoria)

The Department of Justice is one of ten departments of the Government of the State of Victoria, Australia.The main purpose of the department is to assist the government achieve its vision of a safe and just Victoria...

.
Corrections Victoria manages Victoria's 11 public prisons.

• Dame Phyllis Frost Centre
  Dame Phyllis Frost Centre
  Dame Phyllis Frost Centre is a maximum security women's prison located at Deer Park, Victoria, Australia. It was designed by Guymer Bailey Architects Pty. Ltd. and built in 1996 as the first privately designed, financed and operated prison in Victoria...
  
   (Women's)
• HM Melbourne Assessment Prison
  HM Melbourne Assessment Prison
  HM Melbourne Assessment Prison is an Australian remand and reception prison located in Spencer Street, Melbourne, Victoria. The prison is also known by the nickname 'The Map'...
  
  
• HM Prison Ararat
  HM Prison Ararat
  HM Prison Ararat is located in Ararat, Victoria, Australia. HM Prison Ararat 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 and protection or special needs prisoners...
  
  
• HM Prison Barwon
  HM Prison Barwon
  HM Prison Barwon is a maximum security Australian prison located at 1140 Bacchus Marsh Road, 6 km from the township of Lara, , Victoria, Australia. Barwon provides accommodation and services for maximum security mainstream prisoners including a 20-bed facility for high security prisoners and a...
  
  
• HM Prison Dhurringile
  HM Prison Dhurringile
  HM Prison Dhurringile is a minimum security prison located on Murchison Road, Murchison, Victoria, Australia.Situated 160 km north of Melbourne, the 68-room mansion, completed in 1877, was originally a homestead for a large farm. The house was completed for the Winter-Irving family, who were...
  
  
• HM Prison Langi Kal Kal
  HM Prison Langi Kal Kal
  HM Prison Langi Kal Kal is an Australian prison located at Trawalla, near Beaufort, Victoria, Australia. The prison is a minimum security prison farm and all inmates are required to work during their stay unless over retirement age...
  
  
• HM Prison Loddon
  HM Prison Loddon
  HM Prison Loddon is an Australian medium security prison, located in Central Victoria, Australia, approximately four kilometres from the centre of Castlemaine and about one and a half hours from Melbourne....
  
  
• HM Prison Tarrengower
  HM Prison Tarrengower
  HM Prison Tarrengower is a women's prison located in Maldon, Victoria, Australia.-History:Originally a farm, the prison was opened in January 1988 after the property was purchased and accommodation units were built. Tarrengower is the only minimum security female prison in Victoria...
  
   (Women's)
• HM Prison Won Wron
  HM Prison Won Wron
  HM Prison Won Wron was a minimum security Australian prison located in Won Wron, Victoria. It was closed in late 2004, and the subsequent proposal to set up an Indigenous rehabilitation facility on the site was opposed by the local community of Yarram....
  
  
• HM Marngoneet Correctional Centre
• Marngoneet Correctional Centre
  Marngoneet Correctional Centre
  Marngoneet Correctional Centre is a medium security Australian prison in Lara, Victoria, Australia, located adjacent to maximum security HM Prison Barwon. Marngoneet Correctional Centre officially opened on 3 March 2006.-See also:*HM Prison Barwon...
  
  
• Metropolitan Remand Centre
  Metropolitan Remand Centre
  The Metropolitan Remand Centre is an Australian prison located at Ravenhall, Victoria, approximately 20 kilometres from the Melbourne CBD on the Western Freeway...
  
  
• Beechworth Correctional Centre
  Beechworth Correctional Centre
  The Beechworth Correctional Centre is a minimum security prison, located in Beechworth, Victoria, Australia. It was opened in January 2005 as a replacement for the now-closed HM Prison Beechworth....
  
  

Private Prisons

• Fulham Correctional Centre
  Fulham Correctional Centre
  Fulham Correctional Centre is a medium security Australian prison located in Hopkins Road, Sale, Victoria, Australia. The prison consists of mainstream medium security cell blocks, a drug and alcohol treatment unit and a protection unit....
  
  , managed by ACM
• Port Phillip Correctional Centre, managed by GSL Custodial Services (formerly Group 4)
• Old Kilmore Gaol
  Old Kilmore Gaol
  The Old Kilmore Gaol was a maximum security prison in Victoria used from 1859 until 1891 when it was decommissioned and used as a butter factory. The gaol saw many escapes and uprsings over its 32 year period of use. Contrary to popular belief, Ned Kelly was never actually a prisoner here...
  
  now closed

On October 29, 1987, prisoners detained in the high security Jika Jika unit of Pentridge Prison, were dissatisfied with inhumane conditions in the unit.