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


Famous quotes containing the words prison and/or farm:

    “If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It’s better to live somehow than not at all.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “On the farm I had learned how to meet realities without suffering either mentally or physically. My initiative had never been blunted. I had freedom to succeed—freedom to fail. Life on the farm produces a kind of toughness.”
    —Bertha Van Hoosen (1863–1952)