The prison population is subject to significant and sometimes dramatic
fluctuations. Despite the increase in numbers, the inmate population continues
to be safely managed in the State's correctional facilities.
The Government has already provided additional beds by re-opening
Kirkconnell Correctional Centre and re-configuring Kariong from a juvenile to
an adult correctional centre to accommodate 50 inmates.
In addition, Corrective Services NSW (CSNSW) is working to implement a range
of other strategies to increase accommodation. These include:
- more beds being brought on-line at Grafton Correctional Centre
- expanding the inmate state at Glen Innes Correctional Centre
- progressing the modular beds program with 80 beds due to open at Parklea
Correctional Centre, and another 80 beds at the Outer Metropolitan
Multi-purpose Correctional Centre before the end of 2015.
Consideration is also being given to repurposing CSNSW facilities to
accommodate inmates and to recommissioning previously closed facilities.
Further, in the longer term, additional capacity will be provided by the
construction of a new correctional centre at Grafton, and a new addition to
Parklea Correctional Centre.
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