Editing HM Prison Fairlea (section)

{{Short description|Australian female prison in Victoria, Australia}}
{{Use Australian English|date=March 2018}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}}
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{{Infobox Prison
| prison_name    = HM Prison Fairlea
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| location       = [[Fairfield, Victoria|Fairfield]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]
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| status         = Closed, demolished
| classification = Minimum & Maximum security
| capacity       = 60 (1956–1982)<br/>106 (1986–1996)
| opened         = {{Start date|df=yes|1956|03|09}}<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71791088 |title=Women in new gaol |newspaper=[[The Argus (Melbourne)]] |location=Victoria, Australia |date=9 March 1956 |accessdate=22 April 2017 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
| closed         = 1996
| managed_by     = [[Corrections Victoria|Department of Corrections]]
| director       = }}

'''HM Prison Fairlea''' was an Australian female prison located on Yarra Bend Road in the suburb of [[Fairfield, Victoria|Fairfield]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], [[Australia]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Nicholson | first = John  | title = Australia Locked Up | publisher = Allen & Unwin | year = 2006 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=nif-qWQerpQC&dq=Prison+Fairlea+-wikipedia&pg=PA25 | isbn = 1-74114-609-7 | page = 25}}</ref> The first all-female prison in Victoria, it was built on the site of the [[Yarra Bend Asylum]],<ref>{{cite book | last = Greig | first = Deidre N.  | title = Neither Bad Nor Mad: The Competing Discourses of Psychiatry, Law and Politics | publisher = Jessica Kingsley Publishers | year = 2002 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=hKLM4tyF7JwC&dq=Yarra+Bend+Asylum+prison+women&pg=PA21  | isbn = 1-84310-006-1| page = 21}}</ref> with remnants of the walls and gates being used in the layout of the prison.  In 1982 a deliberately lit fire led to the deaths of three inmates. The rebuilt and expanded prison reopened in 1986. After closing in 1996 due to [[privatisation]] of sections of the prison system, Fairlea was demolished and the site converted to parkland.