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Queensland Corrective Services (QCS) is a Queensland government agency responsible for the housing of inmates at Queensland correctional centres. It is an Independent QLD Government Agency that operates under its own Corrective Services Act. QCS operates eleven high security and six low security correctional centres across the state. [1]
It is the largest correctional centre in Queensland. [2] The centre's Maximum Security Unit was closed on 1 March 2013, with maximum security inmates moved to other maximum security facilities within the state. [3] The centre is relatively modern with televisions, showers and toilets in all rooms and shared dining facilities.
The 300-bed minimum to maximum security prison for females was built by Baulderstone [2] and officially opened on 21 December 2011 by Corrective Services Minister Neil Roberts. [3] The facilities began operation in January 2012. [4] SQCC is the first completed stage of the Southern Queensland Correctional Precinct in Australia.
Borallon Training and Correctional Centre is an Australian prison. Despite its name, it is not located in Borallon but on Ivan Lane, Ironbark, City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, approximately 15 minutes from Ipswich. When first opened as Borallon Correctional Centre, it was the first private correctional facility operated in Australia.
Brisbane Correctional Centre, formerly the Sir David Longland Correctional Centre [1] and also known as Wacol Prison, is a male prison facility located in the suburb of Wacol in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Opened in 1988, the prison complex was renovated and subsequently re-opened to inmates in June 2008. [2]
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.
Stewart's Creek Penal Establishment marked 120 years of operational service to the Queensland Community in 2013. Since the closure of Boggo Road Gaol in 1992, Townsville Correctional Centre is the longest continually operating Prison in Queensland. On 6 April 2015 it reached another milestone, the 125th anniversary of its establishment (6 April ...
Lotus Glen Correctional Centre is an Australian prison facility located 14 km south of Mareeba and 20 km north of Atherton in the locality of Arriga in Far North Queensland. Lotus Glen provides a correctional service for high, medium, low and open classification inmates, including a Prison Farm with a capacity for 115 "open security" inmates.