Status Operational Capacity 326 | Security class Minimum (male) Opened March 1963 | |
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Managed by Department of Corrective Services, Western Australia Warden Superintendent: Alan Clements | ||
Karnet Prison Farm is a minimum security Australian prison located 16 kilometres (10 mi) from Serpentine, Western Australia.
The prison farm located on a 375-hectare (927-acre) property, provides meat, eggs, and vegetables for the entire prison system in Western Australia. It breeds cattle and sheep and also has an abattoir, a dairy, a poultry farm, market gardens and an orchard that supplies citrus and stone fruit.
It was opened in 1963
The prison is located in the Keysbrook State Forest, 73 kilometres (45 mi) south of Perth.
Notable inmates have included Alan Bond and Jimmy Krakouer.
References
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