Dictionary of Sydney

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Long Bay Correctional Centre

Prison complex of four maximum security and two minimum security institutions that has housed Sydney's criminals since 1909.

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1982
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Long Bay prison

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2008

Now a vast correctional centre, encompassing many institutions, Long Bay prison complex was originally designed by Walter Liberty Vernon, to further the penal reform ends of William Neitenstein. It included both men's and women's prisons, and over the century since it was built, has been called a range of names, and implicated in successive reforms of the system.