Australia · Northern Territory · Darwin
Berrimah Prison (historic)
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How to send mail, money, and visit Berrimah Prison (historic)
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Replaced by the Darwin Correctional Centre at Holtze in 2014.
Background
Berrimah Prison, was an Australian maximum security prison formerly located in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. The centre was managed by Northern Territory Correctional Services, an agency of the Department of Justice of the Government of the Northern Territory. The centre detained sentenced and charged felons under Northern Territory and/or Commonwealth law. Following significant overcrowding, decommission plans were put into place and the adult facility was closed on Friday 28 November 2014. The Don Dale Youth Detention Centre was moved to the Berrimah prison site following an incident at that prison.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
750
Current population
—
Occupancy
—
Year opened
1979
Closed 2014
Facility profile
Operator
NT Correctional Services (decommissioned)
Population held
male
Opened
1979
Region
Northern Territory
Security level
Maximum
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
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
Compared to other facilities in Australia
231 peersData completeness
64%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- NTCS — Berrimah history
- Australian state and territory corrections departments (consolidated) — State agencies — Corrective Services NSW, Corrections Victoria, QCS, DCS-SA, DOJ-WA, DOJ-TAS, NTCS, ACTCS
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.