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HM Prison Won Wron

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Background

HM Prison Won Wron was a minimum security prison located at Won Wron near Yarram in Victoria. In 1962/63, a group of prisoners and prison officers from HM Prison Morwell River began construction of the HM Prison Won Wron. The facility was associated with a Forests Commission Victoria (FCV) nursery to raise pine seedlings for the Strzelecki Ranges reforestation scheme, although no prison labour was available for forests work until 1968. Eucalypt seedlings were produced at a similar FCV nursery at Olsens Bridge near Boolara which was associated with HM Prison Morwell River. The Olsens Bridge nursery operated until 1991 when operations transferred to Won Wron.

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Occupancy

Year opened

1964

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Operator

Corrections Victoria

Population held

Mixed/unknown

Opened

1964

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