Pardelup Prison Farm

Pardelup Prison Farm is an Australian minimum security prison located on a 2,600-hectare (6,425-acre) mixed-farming operation 27 km west of Mount Barker, Western Australia. The site was originally the home of Andrew Muir (1802-1874), a district pioneer and flour-miller, and became a prison farm in 1927.

A work camp of the same name commenced in June 2002, initially accommodating 12 prisoners, and provides services to the Shire of Plantagenet and the town of Mount Barker.

Prisons in Western Australia
Operational facilities for adults
  • Acacia
  • Albany
  • Bandyup
  • Boronia
  • Broome
  • Bunbury
  • Casuarina
  • Eastern Goldfields
  • Greenough
  • Hakea
  • Karnet
  • Nyandi
  • Pardelup
  • Roebourne
  • Wooroloo
Operational facilities for juveniles
  • Banksia Hill
  • Rangeview
Closed facilities
  • Fremantle Prison
  • Perth Gaol
  • Round House
See also: List of Australian prisons


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    “Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew,
    In prison pine with bondage and restraint;
    And with remembrance of the greater grief
    To banish the less, I find my chief relief.”
    —Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517?–1547)

    “The shifting islands! who would not be willing that his house should be undermined by such a foe! The inhabitant of an island can tell what currents formed the land which he cultivates; and his earth is still being created or destroyed. There before his door, perchance, still empties the stream which brought down the material of his farm ages before, and is still bringing it down or washing it away,—the graceful, gentle robber!”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)