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Prison Profiles - Marngoneet Correctional Centre

The Marngoneet Correctional Centre is a 300 bed, medium security facility, providing intensive treatment and offender management programs for males who are at moderate to high risk of reoffending, and who have a minimum of six months of their sentence left to serve when they arrive there. Marngoneet offers a range of programs, including:

• clinical programs, such as sex offender treatment, drug and alcohol treatment, and violent offender treatment programs, which seek to address the underlying issues associated with offending
• vocational programs to increase employability on release.

Marngoneet's design and processes balance security and therapy. Commissioned as part of Corrections' Long Term Management Strategy, it incorporates a range of technologically advanced security measures, but aims to create normal living conditions, minimise institutionalisation, and promote personal and social responsibility, safety and security, learning and behavioural change.

The project was designed and delivered under a Partnerships Victoria project. The department's Major Project Delivery Services team administers the partnership with the private sector partner(s) responsible for construction and maintenance of the accommodation, security systems, buildings and grounds.

Operator

Corrections Victoria

Security level

Medium

Operational capacity

306 (30 June 2009)

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

Accommodation

Marngoneet Correctional Centre comprises three neighbourhoods. Each neighbourhood includes:

• 40 bed main unit with cell style accommodation with meals supplied
• two six-cell flat-style accommodation with shared facilities and self-catering
• six six-room flat-style accommodation with shared facilities and self-catering.

History

Officially opened on 3 March 2006, the centre is located near Lara, approximately 70 kilometres west of Melbourne.

The name 'Marngoneet' is taken from the local Wathaurong community language and means 'to make new'. The development of the facility was supported by the local Wathaurong Aboriginal Cooperative.