Alice Springs Correctional Centre

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| classification=Medium to maximum

| capacity=400

| opened=1996

| managed_by=Northern Territory Correctional Services

| street-address = 1892 Stuart Highway

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The Alice Springs Correctional Centre, an Australian medium to maximum security prison for males and females, is located {{convert|25|km}} outside Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia. The centre is managed by Northern Territory Correctional Services, an agency of the Department of Justice of the Government of the Northern Territory. The centre detains sentenced and charged felons under Northern Territory and/or Commonwealth law.

Facilities

It has a total capacity for 470 inmates in a variety of security classifications. The centre serves as the main maximum security prison for the Northern Territory. Within a secure compound, up to 316 inmates are accommodated. In a low security environment, located outside the main perimeter fence, 84 units operate with minimal supervision.{{cite web |url=http://www.nt.gov.au/ntt/financial/9697bps/bp2/b2ps79.shtml |title=Alice Springs Correctional Centre |work=Northern Territory Correctional Services: Custodial Operations |publisher=Government of the Northern Territory |date=19 April 2012 |accessdate=9 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211084830/http://www.nt.gov.au/ntt/financial/9697bps/bp2/b2ps79.shtml |archive-date=11 February 2012 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}

An active art program at the centre enables inmates to develop art and business skills. All proceeds from the sale of art works go to victims of crime and support prison programs.{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/nt/content/2003/s1257802.htm |work=Stateline Northern Territory |title=Prison Art |format=transcript |date=3 December 2004 |accessdate=9 May 2012 |publisher=ABC TV |location=Australia |author=Kerin, Lindy |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104153359/http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/nt/content/2003/s1257802.htm |archive-date=4 November 2012 |url-status=dead }}

History

In 1992, {{convert|87|ha}} of land was excised from the Owen Springs pastoral lease to create the site for the centre.{{cite web |title=$20 m prison gets go-ahead |url=https://www.territorystories.nt.gov.au/jspui/bitstream/10070/289035/1/Article_-_%2420_million_prison_gets_go_ahead_Centralian_Advocate_dated_Thursday_30_July_1992.PDF |publisher=Centralian Advocate |accessdate=12 April 2020 |pages=1–2 |date=30 July 1992}} The centre opened in 1996 and received all of the inmates from the former Her Majesty's Gaol and Labour Prison in Alice Springs.{{cite web |title=Her Majesty's Gaol and Labour Prison, Alice Springs (1938 - 1996) |url=https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/guide/nt/YE00297 |website= |publisher=Find & Connect Web Resource Project for the Commonwealth of Australia |accessdate=11 April 2020}}

Notable prisoners

Bradley John Murdoch{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2007-08-25/falconio-murderer-moved-to-alice-springs/650050 |title=Falconio murderer moved to Alice Springs |work=ABC News |location=Australia |date=25 August 2007 |accessdate=9 May 2012 }}{{spaced ndash}}serving life imprisonment for the 2001 murder of English backpacker Peter Falconio.
Dylan Voller – teargassed by prison officers before being shackled in a restraint chair by his neck, ankle and wrists and forced to wear a spit hood.{{cite web |last1=Davidson |first1=Helen |title=Dylan Voller says he felt defenceless and panicked in restraint chair |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/dec/12/dylan-voller-says-he-felt-defenceless-panicked-restraint-chair-don-dale-northern-territory |website=The Guardian |access-date=6 December 2020 |date=12 December 2016}}

References

External links

[https://nt.gov.au/law/prisons/alice-springs-correctional-centre Official webpage]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20120418191611/http://www.nt.gov.au/justice/corrservices/custodial/index.shtml Department of Justice website]

Category:Prisons in the Northern Territory

Category:Maximum security prisons in the Northern Territory

Category:Buildings and structures in Alice Springs

Category:1996 establishments in Australia

Category:Prisons completed in the 1990s