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Belconnen Remand Centre. A new prison was opened on 11 September 2008 at Hume, called the Alexander Maconochie Centre, named after Alexander Maconochie.The centre is designed as a multi role facility to replace the Belconnen Remand Centre and provide detention facilities so that prisoners who are currently held in New South Wales facilities may be held locally.
Defunct prisons in Sydney (5 P) Pages in category "Prisons in Sydney" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
Prisons in Sydney (1 C, 12 P) Pages in category "Prisons in New South Wales" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
The prisoner population of NSW is estimated to rise to by 550 inmates a year to 16,402 within five years. [23] In response to prisoner number growth, Corrective Services NSW launched a $3.8 billion program for building new prison capacity in 2016. [24] The Incident Response Team (IRT) is the Riot Squad of Corrective Services NSW.
The Long Bay Correctional Complex, commonly called Long Bay, is a correctional facility comprising a heritage-listed maximum and minimum security prison for males and females and a hospital to treat prisoners, psychiatric cases and remandees, located in Malabar, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 January 2025. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of Australian people who have been convicted of serious crimes. Bank robbers Australians convicted of bank robbery ...
William Chafe – 20 April 1790 – Hanged at Sydney for burglary from the house of James Sunnyhill in Sydney Cove. Hugh Low – 24 August 1790 – Hanged at Sydney for sheep stealing. He had behaved with merit during the shipwreck of the Guardian ; a letter of pardon arrived from His Majesty 12 months after his execution.
The prison opened in 1997, and has a capacity of 900 inmates. It is the largest single correctional centre in Australia. [5] The majority of inmates are unconvicted or unsentenced. [13] In March, 1999, Russian Australian librarian Lucy Dudko hired a helicopter supposedly to check out the upcoming Olympic site in Sydney. Using a gun, she forced ...