page_title: Punishment in Australia
section_title: Prison museums
hierarchical_section_title: Punishment in Australia / Former prisons / Prison museums
caption_attribution_description: English: Prison cell in Fremantle prison.
context_page_description: Punishment in Australia arises when an individual has been convicted of breaking the law through the Australian criminal justice system. Australia uses prisons, as well as community corrections. The death penalty has been abolished, and corporal punishment is no longer used. Prison labour occurs in Australia, prisoners are involved in many types of work with some paid as little as $0.82 per hour. Before the colonisation of Australia by Europeans, Indigenous Australians had their own traditional punishments, some of which are still practised.
  Prisons in Australia are operated by state-based correctional services departments, for the detention of minimum, medium, maximum and supermax security prisoners convicted in state and federal courts, as well as prisoners on remand. In the June quarter of 2018, there were 42,855 people imprisoned in Australia, which represents an incarceration rate of 222 prisoners per 100,000 adult population., or 172 per 100,000 total population. This represents a sharp increase from previous decades.
context_section_description: Former Australian prisons which are now open to the public as museums.
  Old Dubbo Gaol
  Boggo Road Gaol
  Fremantle Prison
  Fannie Bay Gaol
  Old Gladstone Gaol
  J Ward
  HM Prison Geelong
  Adelaide Gaol
  Mount Gambier Gaol
  Redruth Gaol
  Maitland Gaol
  Wentworth Gaol
  Old Melbourne Gaol
  HM Prison Beechworth
caption: A recreation 1855 cell in Fremantle Prison.
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