Lithgow Correctional Centre

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Lithgow Correctional Centre
Location Marrangaroo, New South Wales
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Status Operational
Security class Maximum (male)
Opened 1990
Managed by Corrective Services NSW

Lithgow Correctional Centre, an Australian maximum security prison for males, is located adjacent to the Great Western Highway at Marrangaroo, near Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia, 152 kilometres (94 mi) west of Sydney. The facility is operated by Corrective Services NSW, an agency of the Department of Attorney General and Justice, of the Government of New South Wales. The Centre accepts felons charged and convicted under New South Wales and/or Commonwealth legislation.

History

Data obtained from Corrective Services NSW by The Sydney Morning Herald revealed that between July 2006 and May 2009, 67 assaults occurred at the Centre, one of which was considered serious.[1]

Following the 2008 discovery of a prison drug ring orchestrated from inside Lithgow Correctional Centre by Bassam Hamzy through use of a mobile phone,[2][3][4] prison officials sought approval for the introduction of a trial of mobile phone jamming technology. The trial is yet to commence.

In 2011, prison officials announced a trial ban of smoking in the Centre, impacting both inmates and officers. Nicotine patches were issued to inmates as a substitute. Prisoners were permitted to smoke in some designated outdoor areas, but were not permitted to smoke in their cells or inside jail facilities. The trial was due to commence in early 2012, for a period of six months.[5]

Notable prisoners

  • John Wayne Glover: serial killer (1932–2005)
  • Andrew Kalajzich:[6] a former millionaire hotel owner, jailed for 25 years for the 1986 murder of his wife
  • Milton Orkopoulos:[7] a disgraced former politician jailed in 2008 for 13 years and eight months for child sex and drugs offences
  • Keith Schreiber:[8] convicted of the stabbing murder of Jack van Krevel in his home at Albion Park
  • Neddy Smith[citation needed]
  • Michael Patrick Murphy: one of the four killers of Anita Cobby in 1986
  • John Travers: sentenced to life imprisonment, never to be released, for his part in being the ringleader of the murder of Anita Cobby in 1986
  • Rodney Francis Cameron: sentenced to life imprisonment, never to be released, for the murder of four victims (and allegedly eight victims)

Visitor access

Public transport to the Centre is available from Lithgow railway station. Lithgow Buslines run buses along the Great Western Highway from Lithgow to Bathurst, some of which stop near Lithgow Correctional Centre. There are other special bus services that run directly to the Centre.

Parking is available for visitors, and signs direct vehicles to the Centre from the Great Western Highway. Visitors to Lithgow Correctional Centre require bookings to see inmates, which can only be made on weekdays. Strict restrictions and security checks apply to all visitors.

See also

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