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Karnet Prison

Karnet Prison
Karnet Prison Farm is located in Western Australia
Karnet Prison Farm
Location in Western Australia
Location Serpentine, Western Australia
Coordinates 32°26′23″S 116°04′38″E / 32.4397°S 116.0772°E / -32.4397; 116.0772Coordinates: 32°26′23″S 116°04′38″E / 32.4397°S 116.0772°E / -32.4397; 116.0772
Status Operational
Security class Minimum (male)
Capacity 326 (as at 2 October 2013)
Opened March 1963
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.



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