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| The Adelaide Remand Centre comprises of two distinct buildings although connected. The administration building was built in 1890 to facilitate a compulsory schooling system. It was the first two story public school built within the city limits and known as the Currie Street Model School. |
| The building was taken over by the Department of Correctional Services in 1985 and now accommodates the administration requirements of the Centre. |
| The present building is quite unique in design as a correctional institution, and at the time of being built was the only one of its kind in Australia. The prisoner accommodation floor plan is similar to the (Federal) Metropolitan Correctional Centre, Chicago, USA. The accommodation and operational area was built in 1985 - 86 and was specifically designed to house 165 prisoners in single cells. Each cell has a shower cubicle, toilet, emergency intercom, window, fire detection system, built-in furniture including bed, chair and desk. Each prisoner has a key to his own cell, and officers are equipped with an override key. |
| Whilst there are those in society who tell us that crime is not increasing, and statistics can be manipulated, it is a fact that the numbers in prison have increased considerably. The Remand Centre now has accommodation for 274 prisoners. No not extra cells, by simply installing double bunks into the cells. |
| Accommodation units generally have about 42 prisoners in each, but this changes almost daily due to our requirement to take all those remanded in custody by the courts. Each unit is supervised by two officers armed with a ballpoint pen and pencil if not already "pinched" by a prisoner. |
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| The Remand Centre provides educational facilities, recreational facilities, a canteen from which prisoners may purchase tobacco and limited groceries on a weekly basis, and a well equipped 10 bed infirmary, providing 24 hour care. |
| Prisoners receive visits over seven days, are allowed to make telephone calls and write and receive unlimited letters. (Monitoring of telephone calls and the random censoring of mail is conducted.) |
| All prisoners are given free food and accommodation during their vacation with us, and given the frequency with which they return, we must be doing something right. Or is it that our accommodation is advertised in the holiday brochures?? |
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Email:
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