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Prison or reformatory

Type - Prison or reformatory
Biloela Reformatory and Industrial School
Brush Farm Home for Boys
Minda Child Remand Home
Parramatta Female Factory
Shaftesbury
Sobraon nautical training ship
State Penitentiary for Men Long Bay
State Reformatory for Women
Sunning Hill Education and Training Unit
Vernon nautical training ship

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Prison or reformatory

Biloela Reformatory and Industrial School

Reform school for girls established on Cockatoo Island in 1871.

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Brush Farm Home for Boys

The Carpentarian Boys Reformatory which was created in 1894 at Brush Farm, the house built in Eastwood by Gregory Blaxland. After the reformatory was closed the building operated as a home for nursing women and then for girls.

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Minda Child Remand Home

Remand centre providing accommodation, health care and children's court for juveniles charged with misconduct. From 1990 it became a juvenile justice detention centre for boys on remand from around the state.

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Parramatta Female Factory

Accommodation for unassigned convict women sent to the colony, which became a workhouse, marriage bureau and hospital. This multiplicity of roles made it difficult to administer and it quickly evolved from a place of refuge into a prison.

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Shaftesbury

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Stone building on South Head Road, near the South Head lighthouse, used as a hotel. Probably the South Head Hotel that was built by William Wallis in the 1840s, the building, and surrounding 11 acres of land, was bought by the New South Wales government in 1877 and converted for institutional use, initially a reformatory for girls. The building was demolished in 1930. 

Sobraon nautical training ship

The second nautical training school on the ship Sobraon at Cockatoo Island, designed to rehabilitate destitute boys.

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State Penitentiary for Men Long Bay

State prison constructed to replace Darlinghurst Gaol which, by the early-twentieth century, had become obsolete.

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State Reformatory for Women

First purpose-built women's prison in New South Wales, it was at the Little Bay end of the Long Bay Correctional complex and consisted of four halls with kitchen, workrooms and hospital facilities.

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Sunning Hill Education and Training Unit

School for girls with special needs within the juvenile detention network.

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Vernon nautical training ship

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The first nautical training school, on a ship moored in Sydney Harbour, which aimed to rehabilitate and train juvenile offenders.