Australia · Victoria · Ravenhall
Dame Phyllis Frost Centre
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Victoria's principal women's prison. Successor to the former Fairlea Women's Prison.
Background
The Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, formerly the Deer Park Metropolitan Women's Correctional Centre (MWCC) is a maximum security women's prison located at Deer Park, Victoria, Australia. Built in 1996, it was the first privately-owned prison in Victoria. It was transferred to public ownership in 2000 and is run by Corrections Victoria. It also houses medium security and all protection prisoners.
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Capacity
260
Current population
—
Occupancy
—
Year opened
1996
Operational
Facility profile
Operator
Corrections Victoria
Population held
female
Opened
1996
Region
Victoria
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
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
Compared to other facilities in Australia
231 peersData completeness
68%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Corrections Victoria — DPFC
- 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.