  Location in Queensland | |
| Location | Wacol, Queensland |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 27°35′9.29″S 152°54′13.66″E / 27.5859139°S 152.9037944°E |
| Status | Operational |
| Security class | High |
| Capacity | 900 |
| Opened | 1999 |
| Managed by | Queensland Corrective Services |
Wolston Correctional Centre is an Australian high-security prison facility in Wacol, Queensland, Australia. Wolston is a 'protection' prison, and as such houses many paedophiles, sex offenders and high-profile prisoners.
In addition to those classes of prisoner mentioned above, the majority of prisoners at Wolston Correctional Centre are non-sex-offender prisoners, who have been transferred to the protection prison from other mainstream prisons because they have provided information to prison authorities about fellow inmates and their safety has been threatened. These types of prisoners are known as "informers", or more colloquially in prison slang as "dogs".
Like most Queensland prisons, Wolston Correctional Centre is severely overcrowded, with some cells designed for a single prisoner accommodating two or more prisoners. This is often achieved by requiring one or more of the prisoners to sleep on the floor. Such overcrowding has led to a dramatic increase in violent assaults as such cramped living conditions increases psychological stress and discomfort of inmates. It is also often the prison guards who become the victims of such assaults, as reported in a 2018 ABC News article.[1]
Notable prisoners
- Mohamed Haneef – an Indian doctor accused of aiding terrorists[2]
- Leonard Fraser – serial killer
- Robert Paul Long – Convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the 2000 Childers Palace Backpackers Hostel Fire which killed 15 backpackers.
- Massimo "Max" Sica – convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the triple murder of his former girlfriend and two siblings
- Gerard Baden-Clay – Murderer - convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife Alison Baden-Clay
- Brett Peter Cowan – serial pedophile convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering Queensland school boy Daniel Morcombe
- Rick Thorburn – convicted of murdering foster daughter Tialeigh Palmer and sentenced to life imprisonment with non-parole of 20 years
- Paul Pisasale – former Lord Mayor of Ipswich convicted of extortion[3]
- Jason Binney - high profile Dalby criminal, convicted of murder, arson and burglary
See also
References
- ↑ Wordsworth, Matt (7 August 2018). "Inmate attack caught on video amid rising tensions in overcrowded prisons". ABC News. Archived from the original on 19 December 2018. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
- ↑ "Haneef confined to solitary". Archived from the original on 31 December 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
- ↑ Jailed former Ipswich mayor Paul Pisasale taken to hospital with exercise-related injury
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