SECURITY AND EMERGENCY PROCEDURES
Includes file of emergency procedures to be carried out in visiting rooms in the case of an escape or attempted escape, fire, prisoners refusing to leave the exercise yard, and hostage procedures.Also includes minutes of New Division management co...
FREMANTLE PRISON
MINUTES - CLOSURE OF FREMANTLE PRISON
Minutes of Committees to organise the transition from Fremantle to Casuarina Prison and the closing ceremony of Fremantle Prison.
FREMANTLE PRISON
Index to the filing system for administration records maintained by Fremantle Prison. Includes file categories: management and policy, personnel, prisoners, occupation and industry, finance and budget, security and legal, committees and boards, ...
FREMANTLE PRISON
Registers of offences by prisoners dealt with by the Superintendent. Shows date, registration number, name, complaint (name of officer), statement of offence, sentence. Under Section 77 of the Prisons Act 1981 there were several options available...
FREMANTLE PRISON
Reports by officers at the end of shifts noting problems encountered, action to be taken etc. These may be general or relate to a specific prisoner.
FREMANTLE PRISON
Registers of charges heard by the Superintendent, visiting Justice, or Stipendary Magistrate. Includes registers showing statistical details and others listing charges, names of prisoners, disposition.
FREMANTLE PRISON
Record of daily menus for Fremantle Prison. Shows menu for breakfast, lunch, dinner for each day, plus diet meals.
FREMANTLE PRISON
Records of workshops including the carpenter shop, metal shop, printing shop, tailors shop, laundry, garden party. Records include correspondence, incident reports etc.
FREMANTLE PRISON
Volumes containing addresses of officers of Fremantle Prison.
FREMANTLE PRISON
REGISTERS - INTERVIEWS WITH COMPTROLLER GENERAL
Registers of interviews with the Comptroller General of the Prisons Department. Registers show date of entry of request, name and registration number of inmate, earliest date of release, request, remarks. The Comptroller General's decision ...
FREMANTLE PRISON
REGISTERS - INTERVIEWS WITH SUPERINTENDENT
Registers of interviews with the Superintendent. Registers show date of entry of request, name and registration number of inmate, earliest date of release, request, remarks. The Superintendent's decision is entered in the remarks column. I...
FREMANTLE PRISON
REGISTERS - INTERVIEWS WITH CHIEF OFFICER
Registers of interviews with the Chief Officer. Subjects dealt with by the Chief Officer tend to include more routine matters than those of the Superintendent. Requests to the Chief Officer may be referred to the Superintendent (see WAS 758 Regi...
FREMANTLE PRISON
FILES - TELEPHONE CALLS - APPLICATIONS
Files of applications by prisoners to make telephone calls. These files form a record, along with the visitors books (WAS 731), of prisoners' outside contacts. These files reflect a period when prisoners could make calls more freely. Prior...
FREMANTLE PRISON
FILES - REMAND PRISONERS - EMPLOYMENT
Files of applications for remand prisoners to be employed at the prison. Files consist of application forms and show prisoner's name and date of birth, signature to certain conditions on the application and date. The application is signed by...
FREMANTLE PRISON
Duplicate copies of passes issued to prisoners to allow them to move from one section to another within the prison complex eg from the visiting room to the laundry, or the carpenters shop to 3 Division etc.
FREMANTLE PRISON
Files of correspondence and memoranda concerning personnel matters eg overtime.
FREMANTLE PRISON
MEDICAL CERTIFICATES OF CAUSE OF DEATH
Volume of medical certificates of the cause of death of prisoners. Deaths recorded between 1895 - 1899 are for Rottnest, between 1931 - 1942 are for Fremantle Prison. Where the medical certificate has been issued only the butt remains showing de...
FREMANTLE PRISON
Registers of prisoners' incoming and outgoing mail. Registers show date, prisoner's name, to whom sent (outgoing), number of letters received (incoming).
FREMANTLE PRISON
Daily occurrence books for prisoners on work release under the program implemented in march 1970. Selected inmates were permitted to work in the community, returning each evening to a hostel outside Fremantle Prison. On 21.10.1974 St Brigid'...
FREMANTLE PRISON
Daily record of departure from and return to the Work Release Centre by inmates on the work release program. Volumes are arranged alphabetically with separate page(s) for each inmate. They show name, date, times out and in and remarks which some...
FREMANTLE PRISON
REGISTERS - TRANSFERS TO OUTSTATIONS
Register of prisoners sent to outstations (Karnet, Bartons Mill, Pardelup). Shows name and registration number of prisoner and date of transfer to whichever outstation. May show date released on parole or transferred to another prison.
FREMANTLE PRISON
REGISTERS - LIFE SENTENCE PRISONERS
Register of five yearly reviews of life sentence prisoners. Shows name and registration number of prisoner, date of committal and subsequent reviews. The register also shows whether the death sentence was carried out, commuted to life, whether r...
FREMANTLE PRISON
Police Court charge books for Greenough Police Court Petty Sessions give date of trial, no. of charge, no. of Ticket of Leave, persons charged, condition, persons charging, charge, how disposed of, fines, fees.
GREENOUGH CLERK OF COURTS
Daily muster of prisoners in various sections of the prison eg workshops, hospital, transfers and discharges, segregation, assessment etc. There are two figures for each day (a morning and evening count?), and a week to a page (ie Monday to Friday).
FREMANTLE PRISON
Registers of cell inspections. Show date, cell number, name of inmate, list of items checked, officer's signature.
FREMANTLE PRISON
Record of telephone calls made by inmates. Show prisoner's name, whom called, relationship to prisoner, division, officer's signature. Volumes are arranged either alphabetically by inmate's name, or chronologically. Cons is ...
FREMANTLE PRISON
REGISTERS - PRISONERS' CASH AND GRATUITIES
Registers of private cash and gratuity requests by inmates. Show date, division, workshopk inmate's name, amount of private cash, amount of gratuity, remarks.
FREMANTLE PRISON
REGISTERS - EQUIPMENT IN PRISONERS' POSSESSION
Registers of radios, television sets and cassette players in prisoners' possession, showing inmate's name, article and its serial number, remarks, date. Registers are either in alphabetical or chronological order.
FREMANTLE PRISON
ATTENDANCE RECORDS - CONTRACTORS
Record of outside contractors' visits to the prison. Shows date, name, division visited, times in and out, remarks.
FREMANTLE PRISON
REGISTERS - REFRACTORY CELLS - REPORTS ON INMATES
Daily reports on prisoners in the Refractory Cells. Arranged alphabetically there is a separate section for each prisoner.
FREMANTLE PRISON
REGISTERS - PRISONERS' SIGNATURES FOR PRIVATE PAPERS
Registers of prisoners having signed private papers such as withdrawal forms, cheques, summonses etc. Show name and registration number of inmate, details of document signed, officer's signature, date.
FREMANTLE PRISON
Applications by trial prisoners for witnesses. Book consists of a blank form and counterfoils of used forms giving details of applications sent. Show witness's name, name of trial prisoner, date of application, what the witness must prove.
FREMANTLE PRISON
Inward correspondence mainly addressed to the Indeterminate Sentences Board from inmates on parole reporting on their whereabouts. Also includes some letters addressed to the Superintendent of Fremantle Prison.
FREMANTLE PRISON
Series of cards entitled Sentenced Prisoners Record. The cards are in two sequences, one for prisoners who were deported, the other for those who died whether in prison or not. Cards show name, immigration details, personal details (date and pla...
FREMANTLE PRISON
Registers of statistics for gaols throughout the State. Gaols are listed alphabetically for each year. For each gaol the number of prison days for males/females, whites/aborigines are shown per month.
PRISONS DEPARTMENT [1]
Register of goods and/or accounts received. Shows to whom they are sent, address, date, supplier details, amount.The first few pages of the volume record prison officers on duty between 29.7.1944 - 7.5.1945.
FREMANTLE PRISON
REGISTERS - INTERVIEWS WITH PRISONERS
Alphabetical registers of interviews with prisoners or other information including an alcoholic survey, native welfare interview book. This is an artificial series created by State Archives. In most cases very little information is contained in ...
FREMANTLE PRISON
Examples of forms used at Fremantle Prison. Mostly blank, the forms are single folios or are pages from registers used for prison records.
FREMANTLE PRISON
Administrative memoranda sent between sections of the Department of Corrections. Includes memos sent to all staff and duplicate copies of memos sent to individual staff.
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
Volumes of tickets issued as forfeiture for idleness or misconduct under the marks system. Where the forfeitures have been issued only the butts remain but the information is duplicated. Information given is date, name and registration number of...
FREMANTLE PRISON
Report forms completed by night officers. Shows numbers of prisoners in various sections, names of officers on duty, details of any incidents which occurred during the relief.
FREMANTLE PRISON
Various medical records relating to prisoners and staff. Includes Daily Medical Journals, Treatment Books, personal medical records of some prisoners and staff and medical record files of prisoners who died.
FREMANTLE PRISON
INDEX - PRISONERS - FREMANTLE - FEMALE
Card index of female inmates of Fremantle Prison compiled by Fremantle Prison Museum. Cards are arranged alphabetically by prisoner's name and give the registration number. A microfilm copy of Cons 4205 is available.
FREMANTLE PRISON
Card index of inmates of Albany Prison compiled by Fremantle Prison Museum. Cards are arranged alphabetically by prisoner's name and give the registration number. A microfilm copy of Cons 4206 is available.
FREMANTLE PRISON
Card index of inmates of Geraldton Prison compiled by Fremantle Prison Museum. Cards are arranged alphabetically by prisoner's name and give the registration number. A microfilm copy of Cons 4207 is available.
FREMANTLE PRISON
Card index of aliases used by prisoners. The index was compiled by staff of Fremantle Prison Museum. Cards are arranged alphabetically by alias with the name under which prisoner was registered. There is also a small note pad with information. ...
FREMANTLE PRISON
MAGISTRATE'S EVIDENCE BOOKS - POLICE COURT AND LOCAL COURT
Details of cases heard before the magistrate in the local court and police court at Lawlers.
LAWLERS CLERK OF COURTS
Daily record of incidents, occurrences and distribution of prisoners at Rottnest Island prison.
ROTTNEST GAOL
Commitment Books for Aboriginal prisoners sent to Rottnest Island.The volumes record prisoner registration number, name, date of commitment, date of arrival, crime, sentence, tribe, magistrate, when due for discharge, when discharged.Occurrence Bo...
ROTTNEST GAOL
RETURNS - CELLULAR DIVISION - RELIGIOUS STATE
Returns for the Cellular Division showing religious state of prisoners. Entries are daily and are number of probation prisoners, reconvicted prisoners, local prisoners and ticket of leave men who are protestant or catholic. There are no names, thi...
FREMANTLE PRISON