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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.
Pages in category "Prisons in Sydney" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Big Stable Newmarket; D.
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.
Sydney, New South Wales: Drug trafficking (heroin) 11 October 1978: 7 April 1989: Sentenced to 30 years, received a pardon. [39] Nola Blake: Botany, New South Wales: Drug trafficking (heroin) January 1987: March 1998: Originally sentenced to death, later commuted to life in prison. Received a Royal Pardon. Holly Deane-Johns: Western Australia ...
The complex accepts prisoners charged and convicted under New South Wales and/or Commonwealth legislation. Additional administrative units of Corrective Services NSW are located on-site including the Security & Intelligence Branch, the Specialised Training Unit, the Drug Detector Dog Unit and the Pre Release Programs Unit.
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 ...
Mary Wade Correctional Centre is a maximum-security prison for women [1] in suburban Sydney, Australia, operated by Corrective Services NSW, an agency of the New South Wales state government. The prison houses female inmates on remand. The centre was named for Mary Wade, a convict transported to colonial NSW in 1790.