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Prison Profiles - Beechworth Correctional Centre

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, choices and responsibilities to those they will encounter in the outside world.

Operator

Corrections Victoria

Security level

Minimum

Operational capacity

120 (30 June 2009)

Operational capacity is the total number of places available in which to house prisoners.

Accommodation

Accommodation includes:

• 15 eight-person units, named after local townships in north-east Victoria - seven units have separate rooms with communal living and kitchenette facilities and eight are self-catering
• one management cell
• one observation cell.

History

The Beechworth Correctional Centre was commissioned in January 2005, after the historic 144-year-old Beechworth Prison closed in December 2004. The Beechworth Correctional Centre is located 5km south of the Beechworth township (Beechworth is 270 kilometres north-east of Melbourne). Beechworth is further from Melbourne than any of Victoria's prisons.