Broken Hill Correctional Centre, an Australian minimum and medium security prison for males and females, is located in Broken Hill, New South Wales. The centre 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 detains sentenced and unsentenced felons under New South Wales and/or Commonwealth legislation.
It also serves as the reception prison for a large area of far western New South Wales, bordered by Queensland in the north, Victoria in the south, and South Australia in the west.
Read more about Broken Hill Correctional Centre: Notable Inmates
Famous quotes containing the words broken, hill and/or centre:
“The office ... make[s] its incumbent a repair man behind a dyke. No sooner is one leak plugged than it is necessary to dash over and stop another that has broken out. There is no end to it.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)
“Tawny are the leaves turned, but they still hold.
It is the harvest; what shall this land produce?
A meager hill of kernels, a runnel of juice.
Declension looks from our land, it is old.”
—John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)
“A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)