Location | Maurice Road, Murray Bridge, South Australia |
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Security class | Low to Medium Security |
Capacity | 472 males |
Opened | 1987 |
Managed by | Department for Correctional Services |
Mobilong Prison is an Australian low and medium security prison for men located at Murray Bridge, South Australia. It has a capacity of 472 prisoners, housed in cells and cottage style units. The centre provides education and vocational training, as well as drug and alcohol counselling. [1]
It currently allows prisoners to manage their own face to face and video domestic visits, and interact with dogs through the SA Greyhounds Adoption Program. [2] The dogs, which are ex-racing dogs, are deemed unsuitable for immediate rehoming, and in need extra socialization to fit into a domestic situation. They would otherwise have been euthanized. Prisoners train them to "accept a lead, brushing, bathing and toilet training, and to behave themselves at meal times", while gaining a Certificate II in Animal Studies. [3]
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The Rural City of Murray Bridge is a local government area of South Australia centred on the regional city of Murray Bridge and stretching south to Lake Alexandrina. It was formed in 1977 by amalgamation of the District Council of Mobilong and the Corporation of Murray Bridge.
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Cadell is a town and locality situated near the north western edge of South Australia's Riverland on the inside of the large southward bend in the Murray River. It is named after Captain Francis Cadell, a pioneer of steam-powered navigation on the Murray River. The town of Cadell was surveyed in 1919 and named in 1920. It is slightly upstream of the earlier failed village settlement of New Era, however what is now the Cadell Irrigation Area is the same as was previously the New Era irrigation area.
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Mobilong is a suburb of Murray Bridge in South Australia, on the west bank of the Murray River. Its boundaries were formalised in March 2000 to cover a portion of land adjacently north of the Murray Bridge city centre and including the Mobilong Swamp and Murray Bridge Irrigation Area.
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Northern Heights is a suburban satellite locality of Murray Bridge in South Australia. Being set approximately 900 metres (3,000 ft) back from the west bank of the Murray River, the locality occupies higher ground immediately west of the Preamimma Creek, which separates it from Mobilong Swamp. The crest of Paradise Hill is at the northwestern corner of the locality.
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Coordinates: 35°6′47″S139°14′2″E / 35.11306°S 139.23389°E