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| align=center colspan=2|<span style="font-size:100%;">Australian Prisons</span>

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| align=center colspan=2|HM Prison Loddon Complex

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| style=width:80px|Location:

|Castlemaine, Victoria

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|Status:

|Operational

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|Classification:

|Low & Medium Security

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|Capacity:

|468 (Loddon) + 248 (Middleton) Total = 715

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|Opened:

|August 1990

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|Closed:

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|Managed by:

|Corrections Victoria

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HM Prison Loddon is an Australian low-medium security prison, located in Central Victoria, Australia, approximately four kilometres from the centre of Castlemaine and 128&nbsp;km north-west of Melbourne.

Loddon is a campus-style prison, within a secure perimeter, providing accommodation for 468 medium-security prisoners. The landscaped grounds, modern buildings and wide range of programs and activities provide an environment and facilities which, as closely as possible, resembles those available in the general community.

Prisoners at a drug-free prison must:

  • Agree to undergo regular and random urine testing and participate in programs, as decided upon with case managers.
  • Any prisoner at Loddon who tests positive to drugs or alcohol or refuses a urine test will be transferred immediately, as will any prisoner who is found guilty of a prison offence related to drugs or alcohol.

Release of gorse spider mite

In 1998 as part of a biocontrol program, the gorse spider mite (Tetranychus lintearius) was first released on this site to control gorse (Ulex europaeus).

References

  • LoddonPrison