Karnet Prison Farm

Karnet Prison Farm is a minimum-security Western Australian prison located in Keysbrook State Forest, 78 kilometres (48 mi) south of Perth,^[1] in the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale.^[2]

Karnet Prison

Location in Western Australia
Karnet Prison Farm (●) is located in Keysbrook State Forest south of Perth
Location	Serpentine, Western Australia
Coordinates	32.4397°S 116.0772°E / -32.4397; 116.0772
Status	Operational
Security class	Minimum (male)
Capacity	360 (as of 2019)
Opened	March 1963
Managed by	Department of Justice, Western Australia
Warden	Superintendent: Alan Clements

The prison farm is located on a 375-hectare (927-acre) property and produces most of the vegetables, meat, milk, and eggs for Western Australia's prisons.^[3][4] It has an abattoir, a dairy, a poultry farm, and an orchard and hydroponic gardens.^[5][6]

The location was made a prison in 1963,^[7][8] and was formerly a facility for the treatment of alcoholics.^[1]

It houses male prisoners, and has an inmate population of 360 as of 2019.^[5] It is a pre-release facility,^[5] open only to prisoners with less than five years to their earliest possible release date,^[4] and therefore aims to prepare prisoners for re-entrance into society after their incarceration.^[9]

Notable past inmates include Alan Bond and Jimmy Krakouer.^[3]