Broome Regional Prison is an Australian

prison A prison, also known as a jail, gaol, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, or remand center, is a facility where Prisoner, people are Imprisonment, imprisoned under the authority of the State (polity), state ...

Broome, Western Australia Broome, also known as Rubibi by the Yawuru, Yawuru people, is a coastal Pearl hunting, pearling and tourist town in the Kimberley (Western Australia), Kimberley region of Western Australia, north of Perth. The town recorded a population of 14,6 ...

. It is one of two prisons in Western Australia's

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region. In 2012 it was announced that the prison would be closed in 2015 following the opening of the

West Kimberley Regional Prison West Kimberley Regional Prison is an Australian prison near Derby in the Kimberley region of north-western Western Australia Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and w ...

Derby Derby ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area on the River Derwent, Derbyshire, River Derwent in Derbyshire, England. Derbyshire is named after Derby, which was its original co ...

, but this plan was shelved in 2015.

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