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Albany Regional Prison
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Background
Albany Regional Prison is a maximum security prison located 8 km West of Albany, Western Australia. Albany Prison was commissioned in 1966 with a capacity of 72 minimum security cells. In 1979 it was upgraded to maximum security and in 1988 expanded to a capacity of 126. In 1993 it expanded again, to 186 standard-bed cells and by 2013 to 310. Albany Prison is the only maximum-security prison outside Perth and manages maximum, medium and minimum-security prisoners and holds a significant number of long-term prisoners originally from other countries.
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Capacity
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1966
Operational
Facility profile
Operator
Department of Justice (Corrective Services WA)
Population held
male
Opened
1966
Region
Western Australia
Security level
Maximum
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
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Data completeness
54%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Corrective Services WA — Albany
- Australian state and territory corrections departments (consolidated) — State agencies — Corrective Services NSW, Corrections Victoria, QCS, DCS-SA, DOJ-WA, DOJ-TAS, NTCS, ACTCS
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.