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Silverwater Correctional Complex

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Template:Short description Template:About Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates {{#invoke:Infobox|infobox}}Template:Template other{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:Infobox prison with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| name | prison_name | image | image_size | alt | caption | image_map | map_size | map_alt | map_caption | pushpin_map | pushpin_map_alt | coordinates | map_dot_mark | pushpin_label | pushpin_relief | pushpin_map_caption | pushpin_mapsize | location | status | classification | capacity | population | population_as_of | population_date | populationdate | opened | closed | former_name | managed_by | director | governor | warden | street-address | city | county | state | postcode | zip | country | website | prisoners | nrhp | embedded | mapframe | mapframe-caption | mapframe-custom | mapframe-id | mapframe-coord | mapframe-wikidata | mapframe-shape | mapframe-frame-width | mapframe-frame-height | mapframe-shape-fill | mapframe-shape-fill-opacity | mapframe-stroke-color | mapframe-stroke-colour | mapframe-stroke-width | mapframe-marker | mapframe-marker-color | mapframe-marker-colour | mapframe-geomask | mapframe-geomask-stroke-color | mapframe-geomask-stroke-colour | mapframe-geomask-stroke-width | mapframe-geomask-fill | mapframe-geomask-fill-opacity | mapframe-zoom | mapframe-length_km | mapframe-length_mi | mapframe-area_km2 | mapframe-area_mi2 | mapframe-frame-coordinates | mapframe-frame-coord | mapframe-switcher }} The Silverwater Correctional Complex, an Australian maximum and minimum security prison complex for males and females, is located in Silverwater, Template:Convert west of the Sydney central business district in New South Wales, Australia. The complex is operated by Corrective Services NSW, an agency of the New South Wales Government Department of Communities and Justice.

The complex comprises four separate facilities including Silverwater Correctional Centre (a minimum security prison for males); Silverwater Women's Correctional Centre (a maximum security institution for women and the major reception centre for female offenders in NSW); the Metropolitan Remand & Reception Centre (a maximum security correctional facility for males); and the Dawn de Loas Correctional Centre (a minimum security correctional centre for males).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The complex accepts prisoners charged and convicted under both New South Wales and Commonwealth legislation, and serves as a reception prison for inmates on remand or pending classification.

Silverwater Correctional CentreEdit

Silverwater Correctional Centre, an Australian minimum security facility for males is located within the complex.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Notable prisonersEdit

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Silverwater Women's Correctional CentreEdit

The Silverwater Women's Correctional Centre (formerly known as the Mulawa Correctional Centre), an Australian maximum security facility for females is located within the complex. The centre is divided into twelve living units, a protection/segregation area, an induction unit, a hospital annexe, and provides accommodation for both sentenced and unsentenced inmates and various special program units.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The facility opened in 1970 as the old women's prison at Long Bay was converted into a medium security facility for men.<ref name=unsw/>

Fraud is the most common reason for imprisonment.Template:Citation needed Inmates are eligible to study for national recognised qualifications including vocation and TAFE courses.<ref>NSW Government, Corrective Services, Silverwater Women's Correctional Centre Template:Webarchive. Retrieved on 10 October 2012.</ref>

In the 2010 New South Wales state budget, the prison was allocated $200,000 for a new video conferencing system.<ref name="npp">Template:Cite news</ref>

Notable prisonersEdit

|CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Lindy">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Spaced ndashNew Zealand-born Australian convicted and later acquitted of murdering her 9-week-old daughter Azaria; Chamberlain gave birth to another child of her husband Michael Chamberlain while in custody; she was held at Silverwater (then Mulawa Women's Prison), then transferred to Berrima Correctional Centre; incarcerated from 29 October 1982 to 7 February 1986.

Metropolitan Remand and Reception CentreEdit

The Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre (MRRC), an Australian maximum security facility for males is located within the complex. The prison opened in 1997, and has a capacity of 900 inmates. It is the largest single correctional centre in Australia.<ref name=unsw>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The majority of inmates are unconvicted or unsentenced.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In March, 1999, Russian Australian librarian Lucy Dudko hired a helicopter supposedly to check out the upcoming Olympic site in Sydney. Using a gun, she forced pilot, Tim Joyce, to land within the Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre grounds. Waiting was her partner John Killick, who was serving 28 years for armed robberies. He jumped in the helicopter making an escape while being fired on by guards and cheered on by inmates.<ref name="smh">Template:Cite news</ref> They landed in a park where Killick hijacked a taxi at gunpoint. The two were able to elude authorities for six weeks before being arrested at the Bass Hill Tourist Park.<ref name="smh" />

In 2004, the Independent Commission Against Corruption conducted an investigation at the prison which concluded that mobile phones were becoming a significant security threat in Australian correctional facilities.<ref name="mpt">Template:Cite news</ref>

In April 2012, the facility was inundated with members of outlaw motorcycle clubs. Segregation between members of the same gangs is enforced in an effort to break member ties.<ref name="tcas">Template:Cite news</ref>

Notable prisonersEdit

Dawn de Loas Correctional CentreEdit

The Dawn de Loas Correctional Centre, an Australian minimum security work release centre for males, is located within the complex.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Major incidentsEdit

In March 1999, inmate John Killick escaped Silverwater Prison via a helicopter that had been hijacked by his partner, Lucy Dudko.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

In March 2021, one of the staff working at the jail died after shooting himself just moments after driving a prison van.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In October 2021, a former prison guard who used to work at Silverwater was sentenced to jail for assault. Before this she was punished for having inappropriate contact with a prisoner at the jail.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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