Pirra Homestead

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Australian Prisons
Pirra Girls’ Home
Location:	Lara, Victoria
Status:	Closed:
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Capacity:
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Closed:	1983
Managed by:	Children's Homes Secion, Family Welfare Division, Social Welfare Department

Pirra Homestead, a former inebriates home for girls known as the Pirra Girls’ Home was an Australian Government run Children's Home located in Lara, Victoria, Australia. The facility was opened in 1960 and was run by the Family Welfare Division of the Social Welfare Department.

Pirra accommodated female wards of the state aged from 10 - 14 years who had come under State wardship for being "in moral danger" or for "lapsing nor (being) likely to lapse into a life of vice and crime".

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v • d • e Prisons in Victoria

Acheron Boys Home · Allambie Reception Centre · Ashendene Boys Home · Beechworth Correctional Centre · Dame Phyllis Frost Centre · Fulham Correctional Centre · J Ward · Hillside Boys Home · HM Prison Ararat · HM Prison Barwon · HM Prison Beechworth · HM Prison Bendigo · HM Melbourne Assessment Prison · HM Prison Dhurringile · HM Prison Fairlea · HM Prison Geelong · HM Prison Langi Kal Kal · HM Prison Loddon · HM Prison Morwell River · HM Prison Pentridge · HM Prison Sale · HM Prison Tarrengower · HM Prison Won Wron · Illoura Children’s Home · Ivanhoe Hostel · Melbourne Custody Centre · Mirallee Reception Centre · Old Castlemaine Gaol · Malmsbury Youth Training Centre · Marngoneet Correctional Centre · Old Kilmore Gaol · Old Melbourne Gaol · Metropolitan Remand Centre · Pirra Homestead · Port Phillip Prison · Turana Youth Training Centre · Winlaton Youth Training Centre

See also: List of Australian prisons

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