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  Fremantle Prison
Numbers of transported convicts gradually declined, the prison came under the control of the colonial government and was renamed Fremantle Prison in 1886.
The quality of the water proved better than that in the town and prisoners were soon pumping, by hand, up to 55 million litres (12 million gallons) of water per year from prison reservoirs to the colony and to ships berthing at the developing port.
In 1907, after the gold rushes in Western Australia and the rapid population growth in the area, the prison was expanded with the construction of New Division to the north, built by contractors with stone from quarries at Rottnest Island.
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  HM Prison Geelong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
HM Prison Geelong was a maximum security Australia prison located on the corner of Myers Street and Swanston Street in Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
The prison was officially closed in 1991 and prisoners were moved to the newly built HM Prison Barwon in Lara.
The three-storey central block is cruciform with east and west wings serving as cells, the north wing as an administration block, and the southern wing as a kitchen, hospital and a tailoring workshop.
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 Prison - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Prisons conventionally are institutions authorized by governments and forming part of a country's criminal justice system, or as facilities for holding prisoners of war.
Prisons form part of military systems, and are used variously to house prisoners of war, so-called unlawful combatants, those whose freedom is deemed a national security risk by military or civilian authorities, and members of the military found guilty of a serious crime.
HM Prison Geelong, in Geelong, Victoria, Australia, closed in 1991.
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 Prison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prisons are conventionally institutions which form part of the criminal justice system of a country, such that imprisonment or incarceration is the penalty imposed by the state for the commission of a crime.
Prisons may also be used as a tool of political repression to detain political prisoners, prisoners of conscience and "enemies of the state", particularly by authoritarian regimes.
Prisons form part of military systems, and are used variously to house prisoners of war, unlawful combatants, those whose freedom is deemed a national security risk by military or civilian authorities, and members of the military found guilty of a serious crime.
www.godseye.com /stat/en/p/r/i/Prison.html   (1120 words)

  
 Geelong Central Business District Encyclopedia Articles @ 209.68.55.254 ()   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Geelong is home to a vast number of pubs, nightclubs and live music venues and has also given birth to a number of notable Australian bands and musicians such as Barry Crocker, Magic Dirt, Jeff Lang, Denis Walter, and also festivals such as the Meredith Music Festival,the Offshore Festival and Poppykettle Festival.
Geelong is serviced by seven railway stations: Lara, Corio, North Shore and North Geelong to the north; Geelong in the city; and South Geelong and Marshall in the south.
Geelong is home to an AFL club, the Geelong Football Club, the third oldest football club in Australia and one of the oldest in the world.
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 Geelong, Victoria - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase
Geelong is becoming well known within Australia for its emerging music scene; it has given birth to a number of major bands, such as Magic Dirt and Warped.
The next visit to the Geelong area, apart from a short-lived settlement at Sorrento, on the far side of the bay (1803/4) was by the explorers Hume and Hovell.
Geelong is serviced by local bus routes covering most of the city and surrounding suburbs, and also a regular V/Line train service to Melbourne and Warrnambool.
www.indopedia.org /Geelong.html   (904 words)

  
 HM Prison Pentridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
HM Prison Pentridge was an Australian prison built in 1850 and located in Coburg, Victoria.
HM Prison Pentridge (a former name of Coburg) was built to receive, in December 1850, sixteen prisoners from the overcrowded Melbourne Gaol.
By 1945, prisoners were allowed one visit per month and to receive and send one letter a fortnight.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/HM Prison Barwon
HM Prison Barwon is an Australian maximum security prison located on Bacchus Marsh Road, Lara, (near Geelong), Victoria, Australia.
Barwon was built to cater for demand due to the recent closures of HM Prison Geelong in 1991 and HM Prison Pentridge in 1997.
A new 300 bed medium security prison is currently being built adjacent to the existing maximum security Barwon Prison and is due for completion in 2006.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/HM_Prison_Barwon   (266 words)

  
 Panopticon - The Comatorium Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Prisons are made to punish the criminal, but ALSO to try to rehabilitate them.
obviously, no prison will be perfect unless you forcibly restrain the prisoners 24 hours and keep them all in solitary confinement, or put them in some kind of stasis the duration of their sentence.
Prison is supposed to be a rehabilitating place and subjecting people to non-stop paranoia and exposure at all times does not seem to achieve the purpose.
www.thecomatorium.com /board/index.php?showtopic=35567   (2048 words)

  
 Prison
In the United States, jails are usually operated under the jurisdiction of local municipal governments while prisons are operated under the jurisdiction of state or federal governments.
The availability of incarceration as a sanction is designed to militate against the likelihood of individuals committing offences: thus prisons are in part about the punishment of individuals who transgress statutory boundaries.
The definition of what is and is not a political crime and a political prison is, of course, highly controversial.
www.measuroo.com /Leg-P/Prison.php   (1092 words)

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