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Latitude
-35.3689
Longitude
149.17
Start Date
2008
End Date
2999

Description

A minimum to maximum-security prison and remand centre for male and female inmates, with a capacity for 300 prisoners. It is the first prison in Australia that was purpose built to meet international human rights obligations. The centre is named in honour of nineteenth-century penal reformer?Alexander Maconochie, who worked in the penal colonies at Van Diemen's Land and Norfolk Island.?

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