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On 25 August 1909 a separate Lock Hospital under the Prisoners Detention Act 1908 (Act No.11, 1908) was declared for "The State Reformatory for Women" prison at Long Bay which housed female prisoners. (1) On 3 June 1914 "The State Penitentiary" prison at Long Bay which housed male prisoners was declared a Lock Hospital under the Prisoners Detention Act, 1908. (2)
The hospital was first located in what became the Male Penitentiary building. It had accommodation for 24 patients, a staff of 10 nurses and 2 full time and 1 part time medical officers. In the 1960s the original hospital was expanded into the original warders' quarters. In 1966 the hospital was moved to the former Female Reformatory Hospital and Staff Quarters building. (3)
Neither of the proclamations for the lock hospitals were revoked prior to the introduction of the Prisons Act 1952 (Act No.9, 1952) which required that every prison have a lock hospital. (4) When the State Reformatory for Women was closed in 1970 the hospital ceased to care for female prisoners. (5)
Changes to the areas including specific premises and current or future buildings locations and buildings to be used for hospital facilities on the Long Bay site required a number of gazettals declaring those areas, buildings or premises to be prisons. An area to be known as the Long Bay Prison Hospital as declared to be a prison on 1 June 1984. (6) A further area was declared to be a prison to be known as the Long Bay Prison Hospital on 24 December 1987. (7) Another area was declared to be a prison to be known as the Long Bay Prison Hospital from 30 June 1989. (8) This Long Bay Hospital, which had 120 beds, was completed in 1989 at a cost of $16.5m and was a new long low building surrounded by red brick walls stretching half way across the lower part of the Long Bay site. (9)
From 11 August 1989 the name of part of the Long Bay Correctional Centre used for the hospital was to be known as the Long Bay Prison Hospital, Long Bay Correctional Centre. (10) The area which had been gazetted on 11 August 1989 was revoked from 1 November 1997. (11)
Post 2004 it was expected that a new Long Bay Hospital would be built to the south of the Medical Transient Centre (former Remand Centre) and a new forensic hospital would be replace the existing hospital on the south-western portion of the Long Bay site. The new Forensic Hospital was to be run by Justice Health. (12)
As of November 2021 the hospital was still in current use.
Endnotes
1. NSW Government Gazette No. 114, 25 August 1909, p.4653.
2. NSW Government Gazette No.96, 3 June 2014, p.3280.
3. Long Bay Correctional Complex Conservation Management Plan. Commissioned
by NSW Department of Commerce for the Department of Corrective Services.
Prepared by Clive Lucas Stapleton & Partners, August 2004, pp.15, 118 (quoting NSW Department of Prisons, The Penal Establishments of New South Wales, State Penitentiary Malabar, 1965, p.16).
4. Prisons Act 1952, s.5 (3).
5. AGY-410.
6. NSW Government Gazette No.86, 1 June 1984, p.2746.
7. NSW Government Gazette No.196, 24 December 1987, p.7122.
8. NSW Government Gazette No.81, 30 June 1989, p.3897.
9. Long Bay Correctional Complex Conservation Management Plan. Commissioned by NSW Department of Commerce for the Department of Corrective Services. Prepared by Clive Lucas Stapleton & Partners, August 2004, p.30, 116.
10. NSW Government Gazette No.88, 11 August 1989, p.5271.
11. NSW Government Gazette No.114, 24 October 1997, p.8779.
12. Long Bay Correctional Complex Conservation Management Plan. Commissioned by NSW Department of Commerce for the Department of Corrective Services. Prepared by Clive Lucas Stapleton & Partners, August 2004, pp.11, 47-48.
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