Australian prison register

Each row links to its sources. The chaplaincy column names organisations with evidence of supplying chaplains at that facility. Where only coordination, wider coverage or historical information is documented, use + Add and open the evidence note for context. More than one organisation may serve a facility. Check with the facility for current coverage.

For NSW, see the Civil Chaplaincies Advisory Committee member directory. The directory lists member organisations across services. Facility assignments require separate confirmation.

• 4 November 2026 Refined the chaplaincy column to show named facility providers, with broader arrangements retained in the evidence notes.
• 4 November 2026 Added the chaplaincy provider column with links to the evidence for each documented arrangement.
• 4 November 2026 Added opening years for Alice Springs and Beechworth, confirmed Beechworth’s men’s classification, and recorded that Malmsbury Youth Justice Centre reopened on 30 April 2026.

Information checked: 4 November 2026 (all sources below were retrieved on that date). Each row in the table links to its own source.

Disclaimer

This register is compiled by APCN, an independent volunteer project, from publicly available sources. It is not an official list and is not endorsed by any government, corrective services or detention agency. Details change, and some may be out of date or incomplete. Check with the relevant agency before relying on it. Population figures are as published by the source on the date shown. Security classifications are as published by each jurisdiction and are not comparable across states.

Attribution (CC BY 4.0 sources only)

Compiled by APCN from public sources, including Queensland Government (qld.gov.au and the Queensland Government Open Data Portal, data.qld.gov.au), NSW Government (nsw.gov.au), ACT Government (act.gov.au), Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Sentencing Advisory Council (Victoria) and Premier of Victoria (premier.vic.gov.au), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Data has been combined, reformatted and in some cases summarised. Each row lists its source and date.

Licence

APCN's compilation may be reused with attribution to APCN. Underlying source material remains subject to each source's own terms.

How it was compiled

• Facts were compiled row by row from each agency's public pages and reports. No tables, page layouts or descriptive text were copied. Values were re-keyed into fixed fields.
• Security classification is shown only where the jurisdiction publishes one. security shows the jurisdiction's own published wording, exactly as published, or Not published. security_detail gives context where needed (for Victoria: the Corrections Victoria prison page's published security level, with the Corrections Victoria classification at 30 June 2024 reported by the Sentencing Advisory Council kept for comparison; Beechworth uses the Sentencing Advisory Council value only). Nothing was inferred.
• For sources not licensed under CC BY, only facts were taken. No text, tables, images or layouts were reproduced.
• Population figures and dates are copied exactly as published. Nothing was calculated, estimated, summed or broken down. Where a source publishes separate figures for parts of a facility and no total, the separate figures are shown as published.
• Capacity (beds) figures are not population, so they are not used in the population field.
• operator is Public or Private. Private is used only where an official source says the facility or its services are privately operated.
• Only facilities with status Operating are included in the table. Recent closures are not listed.

Sources and licences by jurisdiction

Caveats

• Security classifications differ by jurisdiction. For example, Queensland and South Australia publish "High"/"Low" security and the NT publishes "open" security. These words are shown as published in security.
• Population bases differ.
• NSW: count at census night, 30 June 2025.
• Qld: daily average for 2025–26.
• ACT (AMC): average daily number for 2023–24.
• Immigration: people in detention at 31 August 2026.
• WA, SA, Vic, Tas, NT and youth centres have no published per-facility population that meets these rules, so the field is blank.
• Facility-level only. The register deliberately leaves out layouts, internal units, incidents, staffing and other operational detail.
• Christmas Island is an External Territory, and its facility is Commonwealth-run. Home Affairs did not publish a population for it in the 31 August 2026 summary.

Additional sources (cross-check, 4 November 2026)

• Service NSW directory: Bolwara Transitional Centre and Parramatta Transitional Centre (https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/nswgovdirectory/bolwara-transitional-centre ; https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/nswgovdirectory/parramatta-transitional-centre). © State of New South Wales; facts only.
• CSNSW fact sheet, NSW prison system (https://2019folbigginquiry.dcj.nsw.gov.au/content/dam/dcj/corrective-services-nsw/documents/csnsw-fact-sheets/nsw-prison-system.pdf). Facts only.
• CSNSW Annual Report 2024–25, Volume 1 Part 3 (Parklea transition from 1 October 2026). Facts only.
• Parliament of Victoria Hansard (HANSARD-974425065-31628; HANSARD-974425065-36890). Facts only.
• Department of Justice and Community Safety Victoria, Working at custodial precincts, and DJCS careers listing for Cherry Creek (Little River). Facts only.
• The Cherry Creek recruitment attachment cited by the cross-check could not be retrieved on 4 Nov 2026.
• Victorian Government, Parkville College record (https://www.vic.gov.au/parkville-college-number-8916). Facts only.
• AIHW, Youth justice in Australia 2024–25, Appendix D. Facts only.
• National Redress Scheme, Adelaide Immigration Transit Accommodation (2011–). Facts only.
• The Parliament of Australia document cited for Adelaide IDC could not be retrieved on 4 Nov 2026.
• The PSA article on the Parklea handover could not be retrieved on 4 Nov 2026.
• NT Place Names Register, Holtze Youth Detention Centre. Facts only.
• NT Department of Corrections, "New women's prison in Alice Springs marks major milestone", 27 February 2026. Facts only.
• ACT Government, Bimberi Headline Indicators Report, June 2026; ACT Legislative Assembly Hansard, 2008. Facts only.
• Department of Home Affairs FOI release FA 25/03/00310 (North West Point hot contingency). Facts only.
• Tasmanian Department for Education, Children and Young People, Tasmanian Youth Justice Facility page. Facts only.

Additional sources (Claude cross-check, 4 November 2026)

All of these were opened and read on 4 November 2026. Only facts were taken from sources not licensed under CC BY.

• Victoria. Corrections Victoria prison pages for Barwon, Dame Phyllis Frost, Fulham, Hopkins, Judy Lazarus, Langi Kal Kal, Loddon (Middleton), Marngoneet (Karreenga), Melbourne Assessment Prison Precinct, Metropolitan Remand Centre, Port Phillip Prison (St John's Subacute Unit), Ravenhall, Tarrengower and Western Plains (each with its "Reviewed" date, shown in security_detail); Corrections Victoria Dhurringile Prison page; Commissioner's Requirement 3.1.2, Judy Lazarus Transition Centre; Corrections Victoria announcement of reforms to the men's prison system (archived copy, web.archive.org, April 2025); Victorian Auditor-General's Office, Cherry Creek Youth Justice Centre: safety and rehabilitation; Cherry Creek project page (csbp.vic.gov.au). © State of Victoria; facts only.
• New South Wales. NSW Inspector of Custodial Services inspection reports (Bathurst; Broken Hill and Tamworth; Shortland and Cessnock; Cooma; Dillwynia; Silverwater Women's; Geoffrey Pearce; Glen Innes and Mannus; Goulburn and HRMCC; John Morony; Kariong and Kirkconnell; Macquarie and Hunter; MRRC; Long Bay Correctional Complex 2023–24 and its web page; Mid North Coast; Wellington; South Coast; Parklea; St Heliers; Residential facilities and CDTCC; Mary Wade; Kariong ITC, Amber Laurel and the 24-hour CCCs, October 2026) at inspectorcustodial.nsw.gov.au; CSNSW centre pages (Compulsory Drug Treatment, Emu Plains and others); CSNSW Annual Report 2024–25, Volume 1 Part 3 (Junee opening March 1993); Infrastructure NSW, Clarence Correctional Centre project page; NSW ministerial releases of 20 March 2026 ("NSW prison reforms pave way for a safer, modern system"), "NSW strengthens correctional system", the Dawn de Loas capacity release and the Junee return-to-public-hands release (nsw.gov.au). nsw.gov.au: CC BY 4.0. Others: © State of New South Wales; facts only.
• Queensland. Prison locations dataset (data.qld.gov.au, CC BY 4.0), including the work camps aligned to each centre; Queensland Government statement 102299 (Wacol Youth Remand Centre); Department of Youth Justice Woodford project page. CC BY 4.0.
• Western Australia. Department of Justice pages for work camps, Pardelup Prison Farm, Boronia Pre-release Centre for Women, Broome Regional Prison and Wandoo Rehabilitation Prison (wa.gov.au); OICS facility pages for Unit 18 (Melaleuca remand and reintegration facility, repurposed) and Acacia Prison. © State of Western Australia and © OICS; facts only.
• South Australia. Department for Correctional Services prison location pages (Mount Gambier, Mobilong, Adelaide Remand Centre and others) and "Our history" page (corrections.sa.gov.au/about/what-we-do/our-history). © Government of South Australia; facts only.
• Northern Territory. NT Government Berrimah Correctional Centre, Barkly Work Camp and Alice Springs Intake and Transfer Facility pages (nt.gov.au); NT Government media release "Prison doors close for last time", 28 November 2014 (mediareleases.nt.gov.au); NT Department of Corrections new work camps page. © Northern Territory Government; facts only.
• Tasmania. Department of Justice, New Southern Remand Centre project page, Other correctional projects page and Southern Remand Centre page (justice.tas.gov.au); Tasmania Prison Service visiting page; Tasmanian Government submission to the Legislative Council inquiry, 2023 (parliament.tas.gov.au); Custodial Inspector Tasmania, Adult Rehabilitation and Reintegration Inspection Report 2020 (npm.tas.gov.au); DECYP Tasmanian Youth Justice Facility page. © State of Tasmania; facts only.
• ACT. ACT Government Alexander Maconochie Centre page (act.gov.au, last updated 11 February 2026; CC BY 4.0); ACT Inspector of Correctional Services, Healthy Prison Review of the AMC 2025, Summary Report (ics.act.gov.au); Bimberi Headline Indicators Report, June 2026 (parliament.act.gov.au). Facts only for the tabled and ICS reports.
• Immigration detention. Commonwealth Ombudsman, OPCAT in Action: Onshore Immigration Detention (10 March 2026), CC BY 4.0, used to confirm that services are provided by a private contractor from March 2025.
• Could not be retrieved on 4 Nov 2026: Department of Justice and Community Safety (Vic) Annual Report 2024–25; Corrections Victoria Beechworth Correctional Centre profile (the page has no prison profile); Home Affairs live immigration detention statistics by facility; ACT Corrective Services data dashboard figures (interactive dashboard); Department of Human Services (SA) Kurlana Tapa Youth Justice Centre page; NT Department of Corrections news page on the Alice Springs women's prison (re-check).