Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre is a high security remand centre for males, primarily accommodating individuals who a Judge or Magistrate has ordered must be held in custody as they await, and during, trial. The centre is located on the Ipswich Motorway at Wacol in the western suburbs of Brisbane, Australia. It is the largest correctional centre in Queensland. The centre's Maximum Security Unit was closed on 1 March 2013, with maximum security inmates moved to other maximum security facilities within the state.
Brisbane Correctional Centre, formerly the Sir David Longland Correctional Centre, is a prison facility located at Wacol, Queensland, Australia, which was renovated and re-opened in June 2008. The complex houses a water conservation system, a unit specifically designed for 17-year-old prisoners, and an ultra-modern maximum security wing for prisoners considered dangerous. The facility currently consists of 16 units, including a protection unit mainly for elderly prisoners and prisoners with sexual charges, as well as a medical unit for prisoners with serious psychological problems and suicidal thoughts. A typical unit has approximately 70 prisoners.
Borallon Training and Correctional Centre is an Australian prison located on Ivan Lane, Borallon, Queensland, Australia, approximately 15 minutes from Ipswich. When first opened as Borallon Correctional Centre, it was the first private correctional facility operated in Australia. It had a capacity of 492 prisoners. The centre reopened as Borallon Training and Correctional Centre in 2016.
Mary Hutchinson Women's Prison, formerly Risdon Women's Prison, an Australian minimum to maximum security prison for females, is located in Risdon Vale, Tasmania. The facility is operated by the Tasmanian Prison Service, an agency of the Department of Justice of the Government of Tasmania. The facility accepts felons convicted under Tasmanian and/or Commonwealth legislation.
Toowong is a riverside suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Toowong had a population of 12,556 people with a median weekly household income of $1,927.
Palen Creek Correctional Centre is situated about 100 km south west of Brisbane in the rural community of Rathdowney. HM Prison Palen Creek was established in 1934. This was the first prison in the Commonwealth to have absolutely no security measures except the honour of prisoners selected to go there. Prisoners erected their own buildings and sold produce from prisoner maintained market gardens. In 1937, there was a daily average of 50 male prisoners at Palen Creek.
Woodford Correctional Centre is an Australian prison facility located on Neurum Road, Woodford, City of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia, approximately 80 kilometres north from Brisbane and 30 kilometres from Caboolture.
Maryborough Correctional Centre is a prison located at Stein Road, Aldershot, Queensland, Australia, approximately 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) north-west of Maryborough.
Gaythorne is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Gaythorne had a population of 3,023 people.
Indooroopilly is a riverside suburb 7.8 kilometres (4.8 mi) south-west of the Brisbane CBD, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Indooroopilly had a population of 13,622 people.
Wacol is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Wacol had a population of 3,761 people.
Keperra is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Keperra had a population of 6,807 people.
Moggill is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Moggill had a population of 4,641 people.
Tennyson is a southern riverside suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Tennyson had a population of 1,019 people.
Ellen Grove is an outer south-western suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Ellen Grove had a population of 2,906 people.
Sumner is a south-western suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Sumner had a population of 595 people.
Richlands is an outer south-western suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Richlands had a population of 3,598 people.
Camp Columbia was a United States Army military camp located in Wacol, near Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built during World War II to accommodate American troops. The Sixth US Army Headquarters was stationed there and it was an Officer Candidate School from 1942 to 1945. After World War II, it was used by the Australian military and then served as a migrant reception and training center. The camp was then known as the "Wacol East Dependants Holding Camp for Displaced Persons". The old Wacol Army Barracks had been converted into the Wacol Military Museum.
The Southern Queensland Correctional Centre (SQCC) is an Australian prison facility located in the Lockyer Valley, 15 km north from Gatton, and 94 km west from Brisbane, Queensland. The 300-bed minimum to maximum security prison for females was built by Baulderstone and officially opened on 21 December 2011 by Corrective Services Minister Neil Roberts. The facilities began operation in January 2012. SQCC is the first completed stage of the Southern Queensland Correctional Precinct in Australia.
The Brisbane Youth Detention Centre is a youth detention center in Wacol, Queensland, Australia. It has a capacity of 306 children aged 10 to 18. The centre opened in 2001. The Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services is responsible for the centre.
