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Yetta Dhinnakkal Centre

January 01, 1970

Yetta Dhinnakkal Centre, also known as the Brewarrina (Yetta Dhinnakkal) Centre, Brewarrina Correctional Centre and Brewarrina Prison, and referred to informally as Brewarrina jail, was an Australian minimum security prison for young Indigenous Australian men. It was located in Gongolgon, approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) south of Brewarrina, New South Wales. The centre was operated by Corrective Services NSW, an agency of the Department of Communities and Justice, of the Government of New South Wales, until its closure in mid-2020. Many of its inmates were first offenders, and the centre offered various types of educational opportunities, in particular farming skills.[2][3]

Yetta Dhinnakkal Centre
LocationBrewarrina, New South Wales
Coordinates30°21′03″S 146°53′28″E / 30.350835°S 146.891024°E / -30.350835; 146.891024
StatusClosed
Security classMinimum
Opened2000[1]
Managed byCorrective Services NSW

Yetta dhinnakkal is a phrase in the Ngemba language meaning "the right pathway".[2]

Facilities edit

In response to the rising number of Indigenous men being incarcerated in New South Wales prisons, Corrective Services NSW purchased a remote cattle station around 2000 and transformed it into an outdoor prison, without walls, bars, armed guards, or electric fences.[4] Located on 10,553 hectares (26,080 acres) and opened in 2000, the centre was a working farming property, maintained by inmates under officer supervision and guided by elders. The centre's behavioural change programs targeted first-time young Aboriginal offenders aged from 18 to 25, through culturally relevant intensive case management. Vocational training courses werr offered in information technology, horticulture, construction, visual arts and contemporary craft.[5][6] Other practical skills, including small motor maintenance, welding, road sealing, building skills, literacy and numeracy and first aid are also provided.[7]

The reoffending rate in 2004 was assessed at 20 per cent, compared with 40 per cent across NSW.[1] In 2005/2006, the centre was awarded the Gold Award at the NSW Premier's Public Sector Awards in the Social Justice Category.[7]

In January 2011, the centre was isolated by flooding waters affecting northern NSW and Queensland.[8] During April 2011, there were five separate escapes from the minimum security centre.[6]

The closure of the centre was announced in mid-2019, planned for 2020.[2][3] Ownership of the site was split between the local Aboriginal land council and the Brewarrina Shire Council. Orana Haven was planning to lease the Shire's land and facilities for use as a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre from sometime during 2021.[9]

References edit

  1. ^ a b Pearlman, Jonathan (17 August 2004). "Freedom in a prison with boundaries, but no walls". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  2. ^ a b c Cross, Hannah (15 November 2019). "Successful community prison set to close mid-2020". National Indigenous Times. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  3. ^ a b Davies, Jessie (19 October 2019). "Brewarrina jail is closing and the community warns it will have a devastating effect". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  4. ^ Lee, Tim (11 July 2010). "Don't Fence Me In" (transcript). Landline. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 28 December 2018. (Note: updated url since the original one was dead, to a republished version; however, (as of 1 July 2021) the incorrect date (Thu 4 Apr 2019) is displayed. Following up.)
  5. ^ . Correctional Services NSW. Archived from the original on 20 October 2010. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  6. ^ a b "Break-out at Brewarrina: Region on lookout for escapees". The Northern Daily Leader. 27 April 2011. Retrieved 2 May 2012.[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ a b . Australian Prisons Project. University of New South Wales. 2005. Archived from the original on 10 April 2013. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  8. ^ "Goodooga prepared for lengthy isolation". ABC News. Australia. 7 January 2011. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  9. ^ "Ivanhoe and Brewarrina correction facilities repurposed". Condobolin Argus. 25 February 2021. Retrieved 24 June 2021.

External links edit

  • (Archived version, 2010)

January 01, 1970
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