AGY-487 | Metropolitan Remand Centre (1967-1989) Remand Centre (1989-1997)

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This Centre was first declared a prison in 1967 under the name of the Metropolitan Remand Centre. (1) It was one of three new prisons established - by the same proclamation - within the grounds of the former State Penitentiary. (The others were the Metropolitan Reception Prison and the Central Industrial Prison.) (2)

The Centre was used for the detention of male prisoners awaiting trial at metropolitan courts. (3)

In 1989 there was another proclamation declaring this Centre to be a prison, this time under the name of the Remand Centre. (4) This proclamation was revoked on 24 October 1997 with effect from 1 November 1997. (5) The centre was also known as the Metropolitan Remand Centre, Malabar or the Remand Centre, Long Bay Correctional Centre. (6)

The role of a remand centre was then undertaken at the Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre located at Silverwater. (7)


Endnotes
1. New South Wales Government Gazette No.72, 30 June 1967, p.2303.
2. NSW. Department of Corrective Services. "An analysis of NSW Prison Proclamations", compiled by Denis Fitzpatrick, p.20.
3. Official Year Book of New South Wales, 1974, p.738.
4. New South Wales Government Gazette No.88, 11 August 1989, p.5274.
5. NSW Government Gazette No.114, 24 October 1997, p.8782.
6. Ibid.; NSW Government Gazette No.92, 13 July 1979, p.3374.
7. NSW Government Gazette No.115, 7 February 1997, p.518.

REFERENCES:
(1) New South Wales Government Gazette. Sydney, Government Printer. 1832 - .
(2) NSW. Department of Corrective Services. "An analysis of NSW Prison Proclamations compiled by Denis Fitzpatrick. Sydney, The Department, 1996."
(3) Official Yearbook of New South Wales, 1904/5 -1988. Sydney, Government Printer, 1906-1988.