Port Phillip Prison is a maximum security prison located at
Truganina,
Victoria
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Australia. It is Victoria's largest maximum security prison, able to accommodate up to 1117 prisoners.
The prison is privately operated on behalf of the
Government of Victoria
The Victoria State Government, also referred to as just the Victorian Government, is the state-level authority for Victoria, Australia. Like all state governments, it is formed by three independent branches: the executive, the judicial, and th ...
by
G4S Australia Pty Ltd.
Construction and history
Originally called ''Port Phillip Correctional Centre'', the facility was the third privately operated prison to open in Victoria. It received its first prisoners on 10 September 1997.
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G4S confirmed that a prison officer resigned in April 2016 after 100 weapons were seized from his home by Victoria Police as part of an ongoing investigation into firearms offences.
In 2022, a 16 year old boy was held in maximum security for almost four months, against advice from the sentencing judge, during which time he was routinely held in isolation and confined to his cell for 23 hours a day.
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Accommodation units
The prison consists of 13 accommodation units including a youth unit named Penhyn for young adult inmates aged 18–25 who are first time offenders only with no criminal record. All other under 25 prisoners are sent to mainstream units. The induction unit named Matilda is divided into 2 and all prisoners spend time there before being located to other accommodation units. Cells within the units have a shower, hand basin, toilet, desk, chair, television, storage shelves, intercom and bed.[
The prison operates a 20-bed inpatient hospital unit.][
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Notable prisoners
* Julian Knight, perpetrator of the 1987 Hoddle Street massacre
The Hoddle Street massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on the evening of Sunday, 9 August 1987, in Hoddle Street, Clifton Hill, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, in Australia. The shootings resulted in the deaths of seven people, and ser ...
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*Jason Joseph Roberts, convicted of the Silk-Miller police murders.
* Blair Cottrell, Chairman of the United Patriots Front, convicted of stalking and arson.
*Peter Dupas
Peter Norris Dupas (born 6 July 1953) is an Australian convicted serial killer, currently serving three life sentences without parole for murder and primarily for being a serious habitual offender. He has a very significant criminal history inv ...
, convicted serial killer.
References
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1997 establishments in Australia
Prisons in Melbourne
Maximum security prisons in Australia
Private prisons in Australia
Government buildings completed in 1997
Buildings and structures in the City of Wyndham