Did you know : When the jailed built the new jail: By Lorna Parr
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The Emu Plains Correctional Centre is on about 200 acres which were obtained in 1914 for a 'place of detention' Where vegetable growing & farm work could be done - The centre was originally to be for the first offenders & young offenders - However it was used as a male prison & later as a female centre - Prisoners at the Goulburn jail made the dwelling huts for the complex & in 1915, 10 prisoners were housed there - By 1930 there were 78 huts.
Imprint:
Mt Druitt-St Marys Standard, 22 October 2002, page 4.
Source:
Mt Druitt-st Marys Standard Mt Druitt-St Marys Standard, 22 October 2002, page 4.
Collation:
Newspaper Index, article
Dewey class:
Mt Druitt-St Marys Standard
Language:
English
BRN:
226430