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Adelaide Women's Prison
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Adelaide Women's Prison Prison in Northfield, Australia | | Location | Grand Junction Road, Northfield, South Australia | | | Status | Operational | | Security class | Low, high, medium and remand (Female) | | Capacity | 156 | | Managed by | Department for Correctional Services | Adelaide Women's Prison The Adelaide Women's Prison is an Australian prison facility located in the Adelaide suburb of Northfield. It has a capacity of 156 prisoners, and accommodates both sentenced prisoners and those on remand "Remand (detention)") together. The facility contains high, medium and low security prisoners and has video conferencing facilities to enable prisoners to appear in court without leaving the prison. A new visits centre was opened on 15 December 2014, with increased provision for professional visits, three interview rooms and two non-contact rooms.[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide_Women's_Prison#cite_note-1) The prison does not have facilities for babies to stay with their mothers. South Australia is the only state of Australia without such a facility.[\[2\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide_Women's_Prison#cite_note-2)
Background
The Adelaide Pre-Release Centre is a minimum security Australian prison in the Adelaide suburb of Northfield. It is the main pre-release facility in South Australia for both male and female prisoners. It has a capacity of 104 prisoners.
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Capacity
104
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Occupancy
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Year opened
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Operational
Facility profile
Operator
Department for Correctional Services (SA)
Population held
female
Opened
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Region
South Australia
Security level
Multi-level
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
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Compared to other facilities in Australia
261 peersData completeness
68%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- DCS-SA â Adelaide Women's
- Australian state and territory corrections departments (consolidated) — State agencies â Corrective Services NSW, Corrections Victoria, QCS, DCS-SA, DOJ-WA, DOJ-TAS, NTCS, ACTCS
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q66262416)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.