Oberon Correctional Centre

Prison in New South Wales, Australia

33°55′47″S 149°50′55″E / 33.929667°S 149.848667°E / -33.929667; 149.848667StatusOperationalSecurity classMinimum (male)Capacity100^[1]Managed byCorrective Services NSW

Oberon Correctional Centre is an Australian minimum security prison for young male offenders located in Gurnang, 40 kilometres (25 mi) from Oberon, New South Wales. The centre is operated by Corrective Services NSW an agency of the Department of Communities and Justice of the Government of New South Wales. The centre detains sentenced offenders under New South Wales and/or Commonwealth legislation.

The centre caters for one of the final stages of the Corrective Services Young Offenders Program, which attempts to separate younger inmates from older, hardened inmates, and prepares them for eventual release.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "Oberon Correctional Centre". New South Wales correctional facilities. Australian Government: Australian Institute of Criminology. 23 August 2011. Archived from the original on 24 March 2012. Retrieved 4 May 2012.

External links

Oberon Correctional Centre website

Places of detention in New South Wales

State facilities

Adults	Bathurst Berrima Clarence Compulsory Drug Treatment Brewarrina Broken Hill Cessnock Cooma Dawn de Loas Shortland Dillwynia Emu Plains Forensic Hospital Glen Innes Goulburn Hunter Illawarra Ivanhoe John Morony Junee Kirkconnell Lithgow Long Bay Macquarie Mary Wade Mannus Mid North Coast Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre Oberon Outer Metropolitan Parklea Silverwater Women's St Heliers Tabulam Tamworth Wellington
Juveniles	Acmena Cobham Frank Baxter Kariong Orana Reiby Riverina

Adults