Mount Penang Juvenile Justice Centre
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Photo by Robyn Conroy via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)
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Photo by Robyn Conroy via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)
Photo by Robyn Conroy via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)
Photo by Robyn Conroy via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)
Photo by Robyn Conroy via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)
Photo by Heritage Division via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)
Background
The Mount Penang Juvenile Justice Centre is a heritage-listed former juvenile detention centre, now a parkland and redevelopment precinct known as Mount Penang Parklands. It is situated on the Pacific Highway at Somersby, Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by James Nangle and built from 1912 by the New South Wales Public Works Department. It was also known as The Farm Home for Boys, Girrakool and Kariong Juvenile Detention Centre. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register in September 2003.
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Facility profile
Operator
Youth Justice NSW
Population held
Mixed/unknown
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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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Data completeness
24%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.