Melaleuca Remand and Reintegration Facility is a

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for women, in

Canning Vale, Western Australia Canning Vale is a southern suburb of Perth, from the central business district. Its local government areas are the City of Canning (west of Nicholson Road) and the City of Gosnells (east of Nicholson Road). History Canning Vale's name derives f ...

. It opened in December 2016, and has a capacity of 254 inmates. Melaleuca is a standalone facility, built on what were previously Units 11 and 12 of

Hakea Prison Hakea Prison is a maximum security prison for males, located in Canning Vale, Western Australia. The facility is managed by the Department of Justice on behalf of the Government of Western Australia The Government of Western Australia, form ...

. The prison is operated by the private company

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. The

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will pay Sodexo a bonus for reducing

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for each inmate who stays out of jail for two years. This incentive scheme is the first of its type in Australia. The prison is named after the ''

Melaleuca ''Melaleuca'' () is a genus of nearly 300 species of plants in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, commonly known as paperbarks, honey-myrtles or tea-trees (although the last name is also applied to species of '' Leptospermum''). They range in size ...

'' plant.

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Melaleuca Remand and Reintegration Facility
Department of Corrective Services web page {{WesternAustralianPrisons 2016 establishments in Australia Maximum security prisons in Australia Prisons in Western Australia Women's prisons in Australia Canning Vale, Western Australia