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Grafton Gaol

Layer
Australian Prisons
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Latitude
-29.6767
Longitude
152.94
Start Date
1893
End Date
2999

Description

This was the third gaol to be constructed at Grafton, the first two facilities having proved poorly sited and insufficient to local needs. The prison opened in 1893 to receive medium-security prisoners, but in 1924 was reclassified as a maximum-security prison, before reverting to medium-security status in 1945. From 1942 the gaol was used to house the most intractable prisoners due to a number of serious assaults on officers in the New South Wales prison system. The brutal regime at Grafton that followed was heavily criticised during the 1976-1978 Nagle Royal Commission into the New South Wales prison system. In 1991 Grafton Gaol was converted to a Periodic Detention Centre for minor offenders sentenced to a number of repeated short stays in prison (usually at weekends) rather than a continuous prison term. In 1992 the gaol became the Grafton Correctional Centre. The women's wing of the prison was shut in 2011. Today the prison receives minimum to medium-security male inmates with an operational capacity of 64 prisoners.

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t98a