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Broken Hill Gaol

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Australian Prisons
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Latitude
-31.9606
Longitude
141.452
Start Date
1892
End Date
2999

Description

In 1892 the police lockup at Broken Hill was declared a prison, meaning it went from receiving persons awaiting trial or serving very short sentences, to those sentenced to longer periods of detention. It appears it did not begin to receive such prisoners until the following year, when the remaining inmates at the nearby Silverton Gaol were transferred over to the new 90-bed facility. In 1942 the Broken Hill Gaol was decommissioned as a prison to enable the use of the premises by military forces, but the facility reverted to a prison in 1946. Today it is known as the Broken Hill Correctional Centre, a minimum to medium-security prison for men and women.

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