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Prison Profiles - Melbourne Assessment Prison

HM Melbourne Assessment Prison (MAP) facility provides statewide assessment and orientation services for all male prisoners received into the prison system.

Operator

Corrections Victoria

Security level

Maximum

Operational capacity

286 (30 June 2009)

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

Accommodation

Accommodation includes:

• units with different roles or functions such as protection or workforce
• a 15-bed, secondary psychiatric facility, the Acute Assessment Unit, catering for all of the state's male prisoners.

Where possible, prisoners with similar status, such as remand or sentenced, are accommodated together.

History

Planning for the Melbourne Assessment Prison began in 1974, with construction in December 1983. It was completed in 1989 and cost $80 million. The prison was officially opened on 6 April 1989, and received its first prisoners on 29 May 1989. Previously the Melbourne Remand Centre, the prison was originally built to accommodate remand prisoners. In 1997 the prison became the reception prison for all male prisoners in Victoria.