This is a list of operational and former Australian prisons for adult males and females and youth detention centres for juveniles. Prisons listed as "museum" are former prisons that are now open for public inspection and tours.
Throughout the European history of Australia, particularly since its formation as a penal colony, Australia has had many establishments for rehabilitation and incarceration. Altogether, there have been more than 180+ rehabilitation centres, youth correctional centres and prisons in Australia.
Australian Capital Territory
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.
Prisons in the Australian Capital TerritoryPrisonStatusClassificationManagedOpenedClosedCapacityLocation Alexander Maconochie Centre Operational Minimum to maximum ACT Corrective Services 11 September 2008 No 300 Hume Belconnen Remand Centre Closed Maximum Demolished in 2015–2016 ACT Corrective Services 1986 30 April 200960 Belconnen Bimberi Youth Justice Centre Operational ACT Community Services 3 September 2008 No 40 Mitchell Periodic Detention CentreAustralian Capital Territory correctional facilities. 30 June 2009. Australian Institute of Criminology. Retrieved on 13 December 2011. Operational Minimum ACT Corrective Services 1962 No 49 Symonston Symonston Correctional Centre Operational ACT Corrective Services ? No 22 Symonston Total capacity 411 (current)
New South Wales
The following list of operational and closed correctional facilities has been sourced from the Corrective Services NSW and from the State Records archives. Prisons in New South WalesPrisonStatusClassificationManagedOpenedClosedCapacityLocation Acmena Juvenile Justice Centre Operational ? Youth Justice NSW 1998 n/a 45 Grafton Albury Gaol Closed Demolished in 1947 n/a 14 August 1874 4 June 1943 ? Albury Armidale Gaol Closed Demolished in 1929 n/a 14 August 1874 25 June 1920 ? Armidale Balranald Gaol Museum ? n/a 25 August 1887 1 August 1932 ? Balranald Bathurst Correctional Centre Operational Minimum to maximum Corrective Services NSW 14 August 1874 n/a 650 Bathurst Bega Gaol Closed ? n/a 14 August 1874 1 May 1940 ? Bega Berrima Gaol Closed Minimum n/a 1839 2020 ? Berrima Biloela Gaol (Convict Precinct) Events venue ? Sydney Harbour Federation Trust June 1888 1908 ? Cockatoo Island Bombala Gaol Closed Most probably demolished n/a 26 January 1892 30 November 1939 ? Bombala Braidwood Gaol Closed In state of ruins n/a 14 August 1874 16 August 1909 ? Braidwood Brewarrina (Yetta Dhinnakkal) Centre Operational Minimum Corrective Services NSW 2000 n/a 70 Brewarrina Broken Hill Correctional Centre(initially as Silverton Gaol) Operational Medium 12 May 1891 n/a 89 Broken Hill Broken Hill Juvenile Justice Centre Operational ? Youth Justice NSW ? ? ? Broken Hill Burrowa Gaol (or maybe Boorowa Gaol) Closed ? n/a 1 January 1889 5 December 1904 ? Boorowa Cessnock Correctional Centre Operational Minimum to maximum Correctional Services NSW 1972 n/a 750 CessnockClarence Correctional CentreOperationalMinimum to maximumSerco25 July 2020n/a1,700near Grafton Cobham Juvenile Justice Centre Operational ? Youth Justice NSW June 1980 n/a 105 St Marys Condobolin Gaol Closed ? n/a 13 January 1902 1 December 1905 ? Condobolin Cooma Correctional Centre Operational+ museum Minimum to medium(males and females) Corrective Services NSW 1 November 1873 n/a 160 Cooma Coonabarabran Gaol Closed ? n/a 2 October 1878 1 January 1903 ? Coonabarabran Cootamundra Gaol Closed ? n/a 25 November 1886 31 August 1935 ? Cootamundra Darlinghurst Gaol Closed ? National Art School 1822 1914 ? Darlinghurst Defence Force Correctional Establishment Operational ? Australian Defence Force 1989 n/a 22 Holsworthy Barracks Deniliquin Gaol Closed Demolished in 1966 n/a 14 August 1874 15 November 1935 ? Deniliquin Dillwynia Correctional Centre Operational Minimum/ medium Corrective Services NSW 2003 n/a 200 Windsor Dubbo Gaol Museum & events venue ? Commonwealth of Australia 1847 26 August 1966 ? Dubbo Emu Plains Correctional Centre Operational Minimum Corrective Services NSW December 1914 n/a 190 Emu Plains Fort Denison Museum Maximum NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service 1788 1838The Argus, 20 August 1938 p. 2 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12474439 ? Sydney Harbour Frank Baxter Juvenile Justice Centre Operational ? Youth Justice NSW October 1999 ? 120 Kariong Glen Innes Correctional Centre Operational Minimum Corrective Services NSW 15 August 1928 n/a 95 Glen Innes Goulburn Correctional Centre Operational Minimum to maximum; supermax 14 August 1874 n/a 650 Goulburn Grafton Gaol Closed Medium 1893 2020 ? Grafton Grenfell Gaol Closed ? 1 January 1877 1 January 1905 ? Grenfell Gundagai Gaol Closed Minimum 1859 1909 ? Gundagai Hay Gaol Closed Museum, picnic ground and events venue 14 August 1874 31 October 1947 ? Hay Ivanhoe (Warakirri) Correctional Centre Operational Minimum 2000 n/a 50 Ivanhoe John Morony Correctional Centre Operational Minimum to maximum ? 1991 400Windsor Junee Correctional Centre Operational Medium GEO Group Australia 1993 n/a 790 adult males Junee Juniperina Juvenile Justice Centre Operational ? Youth Justice NSW 2005 n/a ? Lidcombe Kariong Youth Correctional Centre Operational ? Corrective Services NSW 1991 n/a 100 Kariong Keelong Juvenile Justice Centre Closed Youth centre Youth Justice NSW 1978 2009 ? Unanderra Kempsey Gaol (opened as West Kempsey Gaol) Closed Most likely demolished n/a 1 January 1884 31 December 1941 West Kempsey Kirkconnell Correctional Centre Operational Minimum Corrective Services NSW 28 November 1958No 250 Sunny Corner Leslie Nott Afforestation Camp, Laurel Hill ClosedLaurel Hill Forest Lodge. Retrieved on 13 December 2011. Minimum n/a 18 March 1957 23 June 1995 ? Laurel Hill Lithgow Correctional Centre Operational Maximum Corrective Services NSW 1990 n/a 460 Lithgow Long Bay Correctional Centre Operational Maximum 1909 n/a 1,100 Sydney Maitland Gaol Museum Maximum 1848 28 January 1998 400 Maitland Mannus Correctional Centre Operational Minimum 1930 n/a 164 Tumbarumba Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre (MRRC) Operational Maximum 1997 n/a 1,050 Silverwater Mid North Coast Correctional Centre Operational Minimum to medium 2004 n/a 500 Aldavilla Mudgee Gaol Closed Most likely demolished 14 August 1874 11 August 1909 Mudgee Narrabri Gaol Museum ? Narrabri Historical Society 1880–1882 2 November 1982 Narrabri Oberon Correctional Centre Operational Minimum 1930Thematic History of Oberon Shire . Philippa Gemmell-Smith. 16 March 2004. Oberon Council. n/a 100 Oberon Orana Juvenile Justice Centre Operational ? Youth Justice NSW 2000 ? 45 Dubbo Parklea Correctional Centre Operational Maximum & a minimum area GEO Group Australia 1983 n/a 893 Parklea Parramatta Gaol Museum Medium ? 1798 2011 580 Parramatta Port Macquarie Gaol Closed Demolished n/a Between 1837 and 1840 1920 Port Macquarie Reiby Juvenile Justice Centre Operational ? Youth Justice NSW August 1973 n/a 55 Airds Riverina Juvenile Justice Centre Operational ? 1984 n/a 45 Wagga Wagga Silverwater Correctional Centre Operational Minimum Corrective Services NSW ? n/a ? Silverwater Silverwater Women's Correctional Centre Operational Minimum 1970 n/a 200 SilverwaterSouth Coast Correctional Centre Operational Minimum to Maximum 2010 n/a 549 Nowra Hill St Heliers Correctional Centre Operational Minimum 1990 n/a 280 Muswellbrook Tamworth Correctional Centre Operational Medium 1991 n/a 90 Tamworth Taree Gaol Closed Demolished 15 December 1884 31 October 1940 Taree Trial Bay Gaol Museum ? 1886 1918 Arakoon Tuncurry Afforestation Camp Closed Demolished 26 October 1913 1 April 1938 Tuncurry Wagga Wagga Gaol Closed Demolished in 1919 1863 11 August 1909 Wagga Wagga Wellington Correctional Centre Operational Maximum Corrective Services NSW 2007 n/a 700 Wellington Wentworth Gaol School then to Museum ? n/a Built in 1879–1881 1927 Wentworth Windsor Gaol Closed Demolished in 1936 n/a 14 August 1874 17 January 1899 Windsor Wollongong Gaol Closed Demolished after WWI n/a 14 August 1874 31 October 1915 Wollongong Wyalong Gaol Closed Most probably demolished n/a 1 February 1899 16 August 1909 Wyalong Yarrangobilly Gaol Closed ? n/a 2 November 1966 21 July 1993 Yarrangobilly Yasmar Juvenile Justice Centre Closed ? Youth Justice NSW 1981 2006 36 Ashfield Yass Gaol Closed Most probably demolished n/a 1 September 1883 16 August 1909 Yass Young Gaol Closed Much of the gaol was demolished in 1934 and the remains (mainly the arched gateway) were incorporated into Young's new technical college. n/a 14 August 1874 1 August 1923 Young Total capacity 4,927 (known) Cooma commenced operations on 1 November 1873 with 31 cells. In 1876 it was reduced to a Police Gaol and then a temporary Lunatic Asylum in 1877. The Centre closed temporarily in the early 1900s. The Gaol reopened on 8 March 1957 and was again closed 10 July 1998. Cooma Correctional Centre reopened for the second time in November 2001. Maitland, now closed, had capacity for 400 inmates at its peak.
Northern Territory Prisons in the Northern TerritoryPrisonStatusClassificationManagedOpenedClosedCapacityLocation Alice Springs Correctional Centre Operational Maximum Northern Territory Correctional Services 1996 – 470 Alice Springs Alice Springs Juvenile Holding Centre Operational Maximum September 1998 – 10 Alice Springs Berrimah Prison Closed Maximum Northern Territory Correctional Services 1 September 1979 28 November 2014 750 Berrimah Don Dale Youth Detention Centre Operational Maximum Department of Territory Families, Housing and Communities 1989 – 38 Berrimah Darwin Correctional Centre Operational Minimum to maximum Northern Territory Correctional Services September 2014 – 1000Holtze Fannie Bay Gaol Museum Maximum Department of Community Development, Sport & Cultural Affairs 20 September 1883 1 September 1979 ? Darwin Gunn Point Prison Farm Closed Minimum Northern Territory Correctional Services 1973 1996 ? Gunn Point Wildman River Wilderness Work Camp Closed Minimum Northern Territory Correctional Services 1980s 2003 20 Wildman River Total capacity 2288 (current)
Queensland