Dame Phyllis Frost Centre
1335223
208515783
2008-04-27T13:00:09Z
202.6.153.166
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| align=center colspan=2|<font size="2">'''Australian Prisons'''</font>
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| align=center colspan=2|Dame Phyllis Frost Centre
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| style=width:80px|Location:
|[[Deer Park, Victoria|Deer Park]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]
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|Status:
|Operational
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|Classification:
|Maximum Security
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|Capacity:
|260
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|Opened:
|[[August 15]] [[1996]]
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|Closed:
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|Managed by:
|[[Corrections Victoria]]
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'''Dame Phyllis Frost Centre''' (formerly the '''Deer Park Metropolitan Women's Correctional Centre''') is a maximum security women's prison located at [[Deer Park, Victoria|Deer Park]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], [[Australia]]. <ref>{{cite web
| title = Prisons in Victoria: Prison Profile
| url = http://www.justice.vic.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/DOJ+Internet/Home/Prisons/Prisons+in+Victoria/JUSTICE+-+Prison+Profiles+-+Dame+Phyllis+Frost+Centre}}</ref> It was designed by [[Guymer Bailey Architects Pty. Ltd.]] The centre is named after welfare worker and philanthropist [[Dame Phyllis Frost]] who was well known for her commitment to unpopular causes, most notably helping women prisoners.
The prison facility was opened on 15 August 1996 and received its first prisoners that same month. It was the first privately designed, financed, built and operated prison in Victoria.<ref>{{cite web
| title = Prisons in Victoria: Prison Profile
| url = http://www.justice.vic.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/DOJ+Internet/Home/Prisons/Prisons+in+Victoria/JUSTICE+-+Prison+Profiles+-+Dame+Phyllis+Frost+Centre}}</ref>
On 3 October 2000, the government took control of the facility and appointed an administrator under section 8F of the Corrections Act, and section 27B of the prison contract to operate the prison. On 2 November 2000, the Minister for Corrections announced the transfer of ownership and management of MWCC to the public sector.<ref>{{cite web
| title = Prisons in Victoria: Prison Profile
| url = http://www.justice.vic.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/DOJ+Internet/Home/Prisons/Prisons+in+Victoria/JUSTICE+-+Prison+Profiles+-+Dame+Phyllis+Frost+Centre}}</ref>
==Notable prisoners==
* [[Chika Honda]]
{{Refimprove|date=September 2007}}
* [[Vicki Roach]]
== References ==
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==External links==
* [http://www.justice.vic.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/DOJ+Internet/Home/Prisons/Prisons+in+Victoria/JUSTICE+-+Prison+Profiles+-+Dame+Phyllis+Frost+Centre Prisons in Victoria: Prison Profile]
* [http://www.guymerbailey.com.au/|Guymer Bailey Architects Pty. Ltd.]
[[Category:1996 establishments|Dame Phyllis Frost Centre]]
[[Category:Prisons in Melbourne|Dame Phyllis Frost Centre]]
[[Category:Maximum security prisons in Australia]]
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