Junee Correctional Centre

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title: "Junee Correctional Centre" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1993-establishments-in-australia", "geo-group", "prisons-completed-in-the-1990s", "prisons-in-new-south-wales", "private-prisons-in-australia"] description: "Prison in Junee, Australia" topic_path: "geography/australia" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junee_Correctional_Centre" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Prison in Junee, Australia ::

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Field	Value
prison_name	Junee Correctional Centre
location	Junee, New South Wales
status	Operational
classification	Minimum to Maximum
capacity	Minimum – 140
Medium – 650
Maximum — 480
opened	19 March 1993
managed_by	GEO Group Australia
coordinates
website	www.nsw.gov.au
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Junee Correctional Centre is a prison in Junee, Australia, operated by Corrective Services NSW. The prison houses sentenced male inmates with a maximum, medium or minimum security classification, along with a small number of female remand inmates in transit to other locations. The centre has a total capacity of 1279.

The prison is made up of three sections: a medium-security facility for male inmates, a minimum-security facility for male inmates, and a new maximum-security facility for male inmates.

Junee opened in 1993 as the first privately operated prison in NSW. It will be brought into public ownership in April 2025.

History

During 1989, representatives of the New South Wales Department of Corrections, including the Minister for Corrective Services, Michael Yabsley, visited the United States to learn first-hand about private corrections management. They toured US state and federal managed corrections facilities as well as privately managed correction facilities. Once satisfied that substantial benefits could be gained from private contract management, Coalition support was gained and laws were amended. Instructions went out to government agencies to develop a competitive process to bring private corrections management to New South Wales. It was also decided that to allow for maximum efficiencies in management, the government would also call for tenders for private design and construction of a new prison.

Following a call to local government authorities for an expression of interest in a privately managed correctional facility being located within local government boundaries, Junee town leaders and the elected representatives strongly supported the concept, and the town was selected as the site for a new correctional centre. The ensuing years saw extensive community consultation by both Corrective Services NSW and NSW Public Works as the government went about selecting an appropriate building contractor and final operator. By 1991, the NSW Government executed a contract with Australasian Correctional Services (ACS) for design and construction, and another contract with the same company for the management of the centre. ACS in turn executed two contracts, one with Thiess Contractors for the design and construction of the facility and one with Australasian Correctional Management for the management of the centre.

The centre, completed in 1993 at a cost of $53 million,

New South Wales was the second state in Australia, after Queensland, to introduce private prisons. Junee was the first prison in Australia to be designed, constructed and managed by the private sector under a single contractual arrangement. The prison is managed by the GEO Group Australia, which was granted a new contract in 2001.

Following an announcement in November 2023, the prison will be brought into public ownership on 1 April 2025. The prison will be operated by Corrective Services NSW.

References

References

1. (December 2024). "Inspection of Junee Correctional Centre 2023". Inspector of Custodial Services.
2. (1993). "Corrections contract management in New South Wales: the Junee experience". [[Australian Institute of Criminology]].
3. Harding, Richard W.. (May 1992). "Private Prisons in Australia". Australian Institute of Criminology.
4. Roth, Lenny. (July 2004). "Privatisation of Prisons". NSW Parliamentary Library Research Service.
5. [[Minister for Corrections (New South Wales). (3 November 2023). "Bringing Junee Correctional Centre into public hands". [[Department of Communities and Justice]].
6. (3 November 2023). "Privately run Junee Correctional Centre set to return to public hands". [[ABC News (Australia).
7. (2 December 2024). "Jobs and entitlements secured as Junee Correctional Centre approaches return to public hands". Corrective Services NSW.

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