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.
[1] Hakea Prison has specialist management units known as "punishment units"[2] which have been described by the state regulator as "outdated and not fit for purpose" because of the intense psychological damage they inflict on inmates as well as the inability of guards to monitor the cells.
These punishment units do not have showers and deprive inmates of several officially required amenities such as human contact.
[3] In March 2022 an Indigenous man suicided in one of the punishment cells after his repeated calls for help from guards were ignored.