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PRISONS IN AUSTRALIA
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Adelaide Remand Centre
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Gender Population: Male
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Capacity: 247 Prisoners
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Security Rating: Maximum
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Address: 208 Currie St Adelaide SA 5000
The Remand Centre, located in Currie Street,
Adelaide, is capable of accommodating up to 247 male people who have been
remanded in custody by the courts. About 60% of these people are released on
bail or don’t receive a custodial sentence. Experience indicates that a person
on remand is more likely to attempt to escape or commit self harm and mainly for
that reason the Remand Centre is a high security prison.
While in the Remand Centre, offenders are able
to receive visits regularly and where possible special visits can and are
arranged at times which are usually not convenient. Apart from exercise yards,
remandees do not have any access to the outside. Their cells are in several
accommodation units in which they take their meals and associate for most of the
time. Remandees can chose to go to exercise yards or the recreation centre which
has weight lifting equipment, a squash court, multi-purpose courts for
volleyball etc, and an education centre where computer technology is taught. The
Centre has its own fully equipped infirmary where nursing staff and doctors,
employed by Sa Forensic Health Services, can treat most ailments although, as in
the case of all prisons, if the illness or injury requires further treatment the
remandee can be taken under escort to hospital.
Males who are initially remanded in
custody in Adelaide will spend the remand period in the Remand Centre unless
there is a need for them to be transferred to Yatala
Labour Prison which can be the case for long-term remandees.
Sentenced male prisoners are initially
accommodated in the assessment unit of Yatala Labour Prison for a sentence or
case plan to be compiled. This plan will determine the immediate and perhaps
long-term needs of the prisoner.
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Yatala Labour Prison
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Gender Population: Males and Female
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Capacity: 395 Prisoners
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Security Rating: Minimum/Medium/Maximum
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Address: Peter Brown Drive Northfield SA
5085
Yatala is a high to medium security institution
but it also accommodates low security prisoners who are in transit to another
prison. Yatala can accommodate up to 406 prisoners all in cell blocks.
The entire prison is separated into distinctive
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B-Division
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E-Division
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F-Division
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G-Division.
B-Division accommodates high and medium
security prisoners and protectees. (Protectees are prisoners who need protection
from the general prison population because of their crime or they are known to
be an informant; or close supervision for their own safety. Extreme cases are
accommodated in G-Division.)
E-Division is the assessment and induction
unit. All male prisoners are initially accommodated here where they will be
interviewed by experienced staff for their needs such as health and education or
their potential to work.
E-Division also has a small wing to which fine
default prisoners are allocated.
F-Division is the working division of Yatala.
The unit is in close proximity to the main industry facilities of Yatala which
are the largest in the SA prison system.
G-Division is the highest security section of
the entire prison system. It accommodates the most notorious and dangerous
prisoners and those protectees who are considered in need of constant
supervision.
Yatala also is the base of the Prisoner
Assessment Committee which sets case plans and adjudicates on all prisoner
movements regarding accommodation. This committee also sets security ratings for
prisoners.
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Mobilong Prison (Murray Bridge)
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Gender Population: Male
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Capacity: 240 Prisoners
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Security Rating: Minimum/Medium
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Address: Maurice Rd Murray Bridge SA
5253 or Locked Bag 200 Murray Bridge SA 5253
An hour’s drive east of Adelaide. Mobilong
accommodates medium and low security prisoners with the emphasis on education.
The prison is laid out in campus style with several accommodation units of
cells. During the day prisoners are allowed open movement inside the grounds to
attend education, work or programs.
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Port Augusta Prison
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Gender Population: Male and Female
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Capacity: 270 Male and 13 Female
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Security Rating: Minimum/Medium
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Address: PO Box 6 Port Augusta SA 5700
This prison can accommodate up to 283
prisoners, including 13 females. The prisoner has facilities for high, medium
and low security. Many of the State’s Aboriginal prisoners are accommodated here
because of the prison’s proximity to the Tribal Lands of the Far North of South
Australia. Education, work and programs applicable to Aboriginal people are run
here. The prison also has a small low security cottage facility from which day
leave programs are run. Work crews in Mobile Outback Work Camps are dispatched
from this prison to work improving national parks around South Australia.
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Adelaide Pre-Release Centre
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Gender Population: Male
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Capacity: 70 Prisoners
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Security Rating: Minimum
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Address: Grand Junction Rd Northfield SA
5085 or PO Box 2042 Regency Park SA 5010
Tries to replicate community living conditions.
The centre can accommodate 70 male prisoners in cottage-style units of four or
five beds each. each cottage has a communal kitchen, bathrooms, toilets and
living area. Prisoners also have access to outside barbecues. They are supplied
with rations on a weekly basis and are required to fend for themselves.
Prisoners are granted leave to attend work and education or programs which is
designed to ease them back into the community.
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Adelaide Women's Prison
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Gender Population: Female
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Capacity: 71 Prisoners
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Security Rating: Minimum/Medium/Maximum
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Address: 208 Currie St Adelaide SA 5000
The Adelaide Women’s Prison has two main
sections - mainstream, which accommodates high, medium and low security and
remand prisoners, and the Living Skills Unit for low security women. They are
distinctly separated areas which in total accommodate 71 women.
Mainstream has cellblock accommodation while
the LSU is for women closing on a release date who are given opportunities to
develop skills through special programming. This may consist of education or
work programs available outside the prison and special development programs that
are run inside the prison.
These women live in transportable units each
containing their own kitchen, toilets and bathroom. Women accommodated here are
responsible for all their own domestic needs using stores supplied by the
prison.
There are four of these units available for use
by nursing mothers. These special units consist of a bedroom for the mother, a
nursery for her baby and a living area which includes a kitchen/dining room.
Prisoners in the LSU also have an industries
facility available for work. This includes a manufacturing line producing items
for private industry.
It is from the Living Skills Unit that most
women will be released.
The Mainstream unit also has one nursery cell
available similar to that in the LSU.
Mainstream prisoners are eligible for
vocational training programs held within the prison and education programs are
also available.
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Mount Gambier Prison
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Gender Population: Male
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Capacity: 110 Prisoners
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Security Rating: Minimum/Medium
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Address: PO Box 1498 Mount Gambier SA
5290
The Mount Gambier Prison is the newest
institution in SA and it is the first to be privately managed. The United
Kingdom based international corporation, Group 4, was awarded the contract in
late 1995.
Group 4 conducts the day to day running of the
prison but because of legislative requirements, the Department maintains a
General Manager and small supervisory staff.
Mount Gambier is capable of accommodating 110
prisoners in both cottages and cellblock units. All prisoners are placed on
behaviour contracts based on incentives. Breaches of these conditions results in
prisoners being returned to a contract with the least privileges being
available.
The Management has negotiated an agreement with
the Mount Gambier City Council to supply low security prisoners to carry out
Restorative Justice work on a variety of community projects throughout the
region around Mount Gambier.
In 1998 prisoners under the instruction of a
local builder constructed an education centre within the prison. The work was
also attached to a vocational course which resulted in prisoners learning
building skills they can implement when released.
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Cadell Training Centre
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Gender Population: Male
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Capacity: 140 Prisoners
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Security Rating: Minimum
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Address: Community Bag Cadell SA 5321
Cadell Training Centre is located approximately
180 km north-east of Adelaide and is situated on the River Murray 10km from
Morgan.
Cadell accommodates up to 140 low security
prisoners in various styles of accommodation including a cellblock, cottages and
a dormitory.
Apart from the mainstream prison population,
Cadell operates a specialist program. Operation Challenge is a highly structured
program targeting young men who have had limited exposure to the adult prison
system. This program runs for 17 weeks and incorporates a mixture of education,
programs, physical fitness and a significant component of community work
programs.
All Cadell Training Centre prisoners take part
in a structured day. The majority of prisoners work on the institution's farm.
The primary functions of the farm include a dairy, which packages milk for
distribution to other prisons, citrus production and olive growing, a relatively
new initiative.
A significant focus for Cadell Training Centre
is in the area of Restorative Justice. Community work projects conducted by
Cadell prisoners include, but are not restricted to, environmental work on
Troubridge, Althorpe and Kangaroo Islands, local cemetery upgrades and
establishment of local wetlands.
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Port Lincoln Prison
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Gender Population: Male
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Capacity: 64 Prisoners
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Security Rating: Minimum/Medium
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Address: PO Box 441 Port Lincoln SA 5606
Port Lincoln Prison can accommodate 64 low and
medium security prisoners, most of whom work on the large land holdings
totalling about 400ha.
Much of the land is dedicated to crop farming
but sheep, cattle and pigs are also raised.
More lately the farm has also begun hydroponic
vegetable production.
A large amount of this produce is used within
the prison system but Port Lincoln has also established solid markets for local
supply through private markets.
Restorative Justice programs also operate from
Port Lincoln. Low Security prisoners have been involved in projects to refurbish
parts of the local marina and other projects are planned.
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James Nash House
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Gender Population: Male and Female
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Capacity: 30 Prisoners
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Security Rating: Maximum
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Address: PO Box 233 Greenacres SA 5086
This is a a high security unit for
psychologically disturbed people.
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