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Gaol or detention centre

Type - Gaol or detention centre
Carters' Barracks
Darlinghurst Gaol
Fletcher's Gaol
Holsworthy Internment Camp
Hyde Park Barracks
1819 - 1848
Liverpool Internment Camp
Long Bay Correctional Centre
Mulawa Correctional Centre
Parramatta Gaol 1796
Parramatta Gaol 1802
Parramatta Gaol 1842
Parramatta Industrial School for Females
Quarantine Station
Quarantine Station Berrys Bay
Silverwater Correctional Complex
Silverwater Women's Correctional Centre
Sydney Gaol
Villawood detention centre

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Gaol or detention centre

Carters' Barracks

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Barracks on Pitt Street, running along what is close to contemporary Eddy Avenue, comprising several buildings built to house convict gangs working as carters on the brick fields. It was also used as a boys' barracks and, from 1835 to 1843, as a debtors' prison. Part of the complex was later used as a training facility for women, part of the women's refuge run by Sisters of the Good Shepherd. Another building was used as the Police Barracks. The buildings were demolished by 1901 to make way for Central Railway Station.

Darlinghurst Gaol

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Sydney's main gaol from its opening in 1841, later used as an internment camp, technical college and art school.

Fletcher's Gaol

Gaol and court house erected at Cawdor in 1824.

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Holsworthy Internment Camp

Internment camp established during World War I at Holsworthy which housed between 4000 and 6000 German internees.

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Hyde Park Barracks

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Georgian brick building at the southern end of Macquarie Street. Designed by colonial architect Francis Greenway to house male convicts, it subsequently became an immigration depot, government asylum, law courts and museum.

Liverpool Internment Camp

Camp established at the outbreak of World War II to inter those suspected of being a security risk.

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Long Bay Correctional Centre

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

Mulawa Correctional Centre

Maximum security institution for women and the major reception centre for female offenders in NSW.

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Parramatta Gaol 1796

Log walled structure with a surrounding paling fence commissioned by Governor Hunter, which was severely damaged by arsonists in 1799.

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Parramatta Gaol 1802

The second gaol on the site, it was constructed over two storeys with local sandstone. The upper rooms of 80 feet by 20 feet each held weaving looms and the convict women worked and slept amongst the wool bales. It quickly became overcrowded.

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Parramatta Gaol 1842

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Prison complex, dating from 1842, which is one of the oldest intact gaols still in use in Australia.

Parramatta Industrial School for Females

Girls' home set up for neglected and 'uncontrollable' girls. It served a dual purpose as shelter for girls awaiting court appearances and as a reformatory. Conditions were draconian and punishment severe with little schooling but harsh 'training duties' including laundry and cleaning.

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Quarantine Station

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Former quarantine station at North Head which was the main arrival point for immigrants from 1832 to 1984, now home to a hotel, conference complex and restaurant.

Quarantine Station Berrys Bay

Quarantine station established in 1912.

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Silverwater Correctional Complex

Maximum and minimum security prison complex for men and women comprising four separate facilities.

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Silverwater Women's Correctional Centre

Maximum security institution for women and reception centre for female offenders located at Silverwater.

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Sydney Gaol

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In 1797 two gaols were built in the colony, one at Sydney Cove and the other at Parramatta. Both were timber buildings and both were destroyed by fire.The gaol at Sydney Cove was built of timber logs provided by settlers. With a thatched roof, It had 22 cells and a separate brick building for debtors. The gaol was destroyed by fire in early 1799 and then rebuilt in sandstone. Behind a high wall on the corner of George and Essex Streets in the Rocks, it housed both male and female prisoners. Executions took place in its grounds, viewable by the public who could watch from a nearby hill. The gaol beccame overcrowded and dilapidated but stayed open until 1841 when prisoners were removed to the new Darlinghust Gaol and subsequently demolished.

Villawood detention centre

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Secure facility used to house asylum seekers and people awaiting deportation.