Editing Silverwater Correctional Complex (section)

==Silverwater Women's Correctional Centre==
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>{{cite web |url=http://www.aic.gov.au/criminal_justice_system/corrections/facilities/nsw.aspx#mulawa |title=New South Wales correctional facilities: Mulawa Correctional Centre |work=Australian correctional agencies and facilities |publisher=Australian Government: Australian Institute of Criminology |date=23 August 2011 |access-date=5 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324174015/http://aic.gov.au/criminal_justice_system/corrections/facilities/nsw.aspx#mulawa |archive-date=24 March 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> The facility opened in 1970 as the old women's prison at [[Long Bay Correctional Centre|Long Bay]] was converted into a medium security facility for men.<ref name=unsw/>

[[Fraud]] is the most common reason for imprisonment.{{citation needed|date=March 2012}} Inmates are eligible to study for national recognised qualifications including vocation and [[TAFE]] courses.<ref>[http://www.correctiveservices.nsw.gov.au/offender-management/correctional-centres/silverwater_womaens NSW Government, Corrective Services, Silverwater Women's Correctional Centre] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101115103441/http://www.correctiveservices.nsw.gov.au/offender-management/correctional-centres/silverwater_womaens |date=2010-11-15 }}.  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">{{Cite news |url=http://www.crn.com.au/News/214443,nsw-police-and-prisons-get-it-budget-boost.aspx |title=NSW Police and prisons get IT budget boost |author=Brett Winterford |access-date=10 October 2012 |date=9 June 2010 |work=CRN |publisher=Haymarket Media }}</ref>

===Notable prisoners===
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* [[Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton|Lindy Chamberlain]]<ref name="LinderTrialCommentary">{{cite web |author=Linder, Douglas O |url=http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/chamberlain/chamberlainaccount.html |title=The Trial of Lindy and Michael Chamberlain: "The Dingo Trial" A Trial Commentary |publisher=University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School |year=1995–2011 |access-date= }}</ref><ref name="Lindy">{{cite web |url=http://www.lindychamberlain.com/content/story/timeline |work=Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton |title=The Story: Timeline of events |access-date=25 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211192216/http://www.lindychamberlain.com/content/story/timeline |archive-date=11 February 2012 }}</ref>{{spaced ndash}}New Zealand-born Australian convicted and later acquitted of murdering her 9-week-old daughter [[Azaria Chamberlain disappearance|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.
* [[Violet Coco]]{{spaced ndash}}climate activist with 15{{nbsp}}month sentence for blocking one lane of the [[Sydney Harbour Bridge]] in December 2022.
* [[Kathleen Folbigg]]{{spaced ndash}}convicted of the murders of her 3 infant children; incarcerated in 2003 and pardoned in 2023
* [[Maddison Hall]]{{spaced ndash}}convicted of the murder of hitchhiker Lyn Saunders.
* [[Katherine Knight]]{{spaced ndash}}convicted of the murder of de facto husband John Price.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.news.com.au/national/crime/queen-bee-cannibal-killer-katherine-knights-life-in-prison-where-shes-known-as-the-nanna/news-story/e6f5e013f7be2c6328eb40029e0715b2|title=Meet the 'Queen Bee' of Australian prison|newspaper=News.com.au|date=21 July 2017|last1=Sutton|first1=Candace}}</ref>
* [[Theresa Lawson]]{{spaced ndash}}(1951–2014) convicted of the largest fraud in NSW history.
* [[Rachel Pfitnzer]] – convicted of murdering her son [[Murder of Dean Shillingsworth|Dean Shillingsworth]].
* [[Sandra Willson]] – transferred to Mulawa Detention Centre from Parramatta Psychiatric Centre in 1970, after being declared not guilty on ground of insanity for the 1959 murder of a taxi driver, released in 1977 following protests on her behalf by the Women Behind Bars activist group.<ref>{{Cite news |date=17 February 1977 |title=Willson to appear at jail inquiry |pages=12 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sydney-morning-herald-17-feb-1977-t/136755169/ |access-date=14 December 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=19 February 1977 |title=Sandra Willson offered partial freedom. |pages=4 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/123125397/?clipping_id=136756426 |access-date=14 December 2023}}</ref>