--- title: Prison locations and capacity, Victoria, 2009 resource: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-prison-locations/ publisher: Department of Justice (Victoria) licence: CC BY 3.0 AU licence_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ version: 2013-05-12 rows: 15 fields: 9 source: http://data.gov.au/storage/f/2013-05-12T194742/tmptlM5VKprisons.csv source_sha256: 6a56840d38ddbff372765dbfd39a2668677b37a2551299ba66aa591364c74980 language: en-AU operator: National Digital not_endorsed: true --- # Prison locations and capacity, Victoria, 2009 The 14 prisons and correctional centres in Victoria with their address, security level and operational capacity as at 30 June 2009. Published by Department of Justice (Victoria) under CC BY 3.0 AU and republished here in other formats, with cells typed and suppressed values made null. Department of Justice (Victoria) has not endorsed this site. Also called: Prison locations Victoria, List of prisons in Victoria, Victorian prison operational capacity. ## Download Latest version, redirects to `https://publicdata.au/d/vic-prison-locations/v/2013-05-12/`: - csv: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-prison-locations/latest/data.csv (5.8 KB) - xlsx: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-prison-locations/latest/data.xlsx (11 KB) - json: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-prison-locations/latest/data.json (9.7 KB) - parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-prison-locations/latest/data.parquet (11 KB) - sqlite: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-prison-locations/latest/data.sqlite (33 KB) - duckdb: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-prison-locations/latest/data.duckdb (100 KB) - ndjson: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-prison-locations/latest/data.ndjson (9.0 KB) - arrow: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-prison-locations/latest/data.arrow (8.4 KB) - csv.gz: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-prison-locations/latest/data.csv.gz (2.3 KB) Pinned version 2013-05-12: `https://publicdata.au/d/vic-prison-locations/v/2013-05-12/data.`. Dated versions never change. ## Query The query API returns only the rows you ask for, as JSON, NDJSON or CSV, from the same typed rows as the files. It needs no key. Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-prison-locations/rows. Counts and sums: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-prison-locations/aggregate. - Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-prison-locations/rows?limit=5 - Aggregate: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-prison-locations/aggregate?group=security&metric=sum.operational_capacity Each filter is `field=operator.value` in the query string, and every filter must match. A number or date field compares as a number or date, and a text field compares as text. Values are case-sensitive except with `ilike`. Prefix `not.` to negate a filter, as `not.eq.value`. Operators: `eq.value`, `neq.value`, `gt.value`, `gte.value`, `lt.value`, `lte.value`, `like.*text*`, `ilike.*text*`, `in.(a,b,c)`, `is.null`. - `select`: Fields to return, comma-separated. Every field when absent. - `order`: `field.asc` or `field.desc`, comma-separated. The publisher's row order when absent. - `limit`: Rows per page, 1 to 10,000. 100 when absent. - `offset`: Rows to skip. The `next` URL in each answer sets it for you. - `group`: On `aggregate`, fields to group by, comma-separated. - `metric`: On `aggregate`, `count`, `sum.field`, `avg.field`, `min.field` or `max.field`, comma-separated. `count` when absent. - `format`: `json`, `ndjson` or `csv`. JSON carries the provenance header, and the others carry it in response headers. Without a version the API answers from the newest loaded version, and that answer changes when the publisher releases again. Put `versions//` before `rows` or `aggregate` for an answer that never changes. `/api/v1/datasets//versions` lists the loaded versions. The API allows 60 requests in 10 seconds from one address. Above that it answers 429 for 10 seconds with a `Retry-After` header, a `RateLimit-Policy` header and a JSON body that gives the limit. Every API answer carries the same `RateLimit-Policy`. A client should wait the `Retry-After` seconds, or read the files, which have no limit. OpenAPI for this dataset: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-prison-locations/openapi.json ## Explore Charts and dashboards in the browser: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-prison-locations/explore/. A dashboard can be shared as a link or embedded. ## Fields | field | type | publisher's header | note | |---|---|---|---| | `prison_name` | string | Prison Name | | | `address` | string | Address | | | `town` | string | Town | | | `phone` | string | Phone | | | `operational_capacity` | integer | Operational capacity* | The number of prisoners the facility could hold as at 30 June 2009. | | `security` | string | Security | | | `map_ref` | string | Map Ref | A street directory map reference. | | `profile` | string | Profile | | | `link` | string | Link for further info | | ## Versions - 2013-05-12: 15 rows, 9 fields, sha256 6a56840d38dd. https://publicdata.au/d/vic-prison-locations/v/2013-05-12/ Machine-readable: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-prison-locations/versions.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-prison-locations/changes.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-prison-locations/datapackage.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-prison-locations/schema.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-prison-locations/history.tar.zst ## Same subject, other publishers - [Prison locations, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-prison-locations/) (Qld) - [Corrective services, Report on Government Services](https://publicdata.au/d/rogs-corrective-services/) (Cth) - [Police stations, ACT](https://publicdata.au/d/act-police-stations/) (ACT) - [Young people in youth detention each day by detention centre, Queensland 2011 to 2016](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-youth-detention-daily-by-centre/) (Qld) - [Police stations, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-police-stations/) (Qld) ## Attribution and citation Department of Justice (Victoria), Victorian Government, Prison Locations (Victoria), sourced 3 October 2026, https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/prison-locations-victoria, licensed under CC BY 3.0 AU. The licence requires the publisher's attribution. We ask that you also name publicdata.au and link to the version you used. Plain text: Department of Justice (Victoria), Victorian Government, Prison Locations (Victoria), sourced 3 October 2026, https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/prison-locations-victoria, licensed under CC BY 3.0 AU. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-prison-locations/v/2013-05-12/ Harvard: Department of Justice (Victoria) (2013) Prison locations and capacity, Victoria, 2009, version 2013-05-12 [data set], CC BY 3.0 AU, sourced 3 October 2026. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au. Available at: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-prison-locations/v/2013-05-12/ Markdown: Data: [Prison locations and capacity, Victoria, 2009](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/prison-locations-victoria), Department of Justice (Victoria), [CC BY 3.0 AU](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/), sourced 3 October 2026. Files: [publicdata.au](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-prison-locations/v/2013-05-12/) by [National Digital](https://nationaldigital.com.au/). ## Questions ### How do I download Prison locations and capacity, Victoria as a CSV file? Open https://publicdata.au/d/vic-prison-locations/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/vic-prison-locations/v/2013-05-12/data.csv today. The same path serves Excel, JSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, NDJSON, Arrow. A dated URL never changes, so use it when the file must stay the same. ### Can I open Prison locations and capacity, Victoria in Excel? Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/vic-prison-locations/v/2013-05-12/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 15 rows on a records sheet, the field list on a second sheet and the provenance on a third. The CSV also opens in Excel. https://publicdata.au/d/vic-prison-locations/v/2013-05-12/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size. ### How often is Prison locations and capacity, Victoria updated? Department of Justice no longer updates it. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes. ### Can I use Prison locations and capacity, Victoria commercially? Yes. CC BY 3.0 AU allows commercial use, redistribution and derived works as long as the attribution is kept. The attribution string is in this page's side column and inside every file. ### Is this the official source for Prison locations and capacity, Victoria? No. The publisher is Department of Justice (Victoria), and its page is https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/prison-locations-victoria. This site republishes the publisher's file without changing its content. The original sits beside every version as source.csv with its SHA-256, so the two can be compared. ### What does each row hold? One Victorian prison or correctional centre, with its address, town, phone number, operational capacity, security level, a street directory map reference, a short profile and, for some, a link to the department's page about it. ### When is the capacity from? The publisher states the operational capacity as at 30 June 2009. The file was published in 2013 and has not changed since, so prisons opened or closed after then are not reflected. ### Why is there a row that is not a prison? The publisher ends the file with its footnote on the capacity date, which is kept as published. ## What this site did to the data Cells were typed, headers were renamed to snake_case and the encoding was made UTF-8. Rows were left alone. Nothing is derived. The publisher's file is beside every version as `source.csv`. ## Improve this dataset This page is built from [register/vic-prison-locations.yaml](https://github.com/National-Digital/publicdata.au/blob/main/register/vic-prison-locations.yaml) on GitHub, and a fix to it is welcome as a pull request. https://publicdata.au/contribute/ explains how.