Accommodation Units
Barwon provides accommodation and services for maximum security mainstream prisoners including a 20-bed facility for high security prisoners and a 60-bed facility for maximum security protection prisoners. A campus of the Gordon Institute of TAFE operates at the prison providing a corrections education program.
The prison is split into many separate units including:
- Acacia – a high security unit that is used to accommodate high risk prisoners
- Banksia – a protection unit for prisoners requiring close supervision or protection. Most cells in this unit are shared with two prisoners per cell. The Banksia unit is separated into three smaller units, namely Coast, Heath, and Waratah.
- Hoya – a protection unit
- Cassia – a mainstream unit which houses new prisoners
- Diosma – a mainstream unit which accommodates prison workers
- Eucalypt – a mainstream drug free unit used to house older, more settled long term prisoners
- Grevillea – opened in April 2003, housing maximum security prisoners
- 'Illawarra –, for medium security prisoners.
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