Darwin Correctional Centre is a minimum-to-maximum security

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approximately by road from Darwin,

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. It is managed by Northern Territory Correctional Services, which falls under the territory’s Department of Attorney-General and Justice. The prison detains felons who have been charged and

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and/or

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law.

Facilities

The centre is a multi-classification prison with a capacity of 1048 prisoners of all security ratings. The centre was completed in 2014 and is the main reception prison in the Northern Territory, servicing most of the northern and metropolitan regions.

Notable prisoners

Bradley John Murdoch Bradley John Murdoch (born 19 February 1958) is an Australian criminal serving life imprisonment for the July 2001 murder of English backpacker Peter Falconio in Australia. He will be 74 when eligible for parole in 2032. Murdoch is being held ...

Convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment with 28 years before he may be considered for

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for the abduction and murder of British backpacker

Peter Falconio Peter Falconio was a British tourist who disappeared in a remote part of the Stuart Highway near Barrow Creek in the Northern Territory of Australia on the evening of 14 July 2001, while travelling with his girlfriend Joanne Lees. In the aft ...

and attempted murder of Joanne Lees. * Aaron Summers – Former Australian Cricketer, convicted on child sex crimes

References

External links

Northern Territory Correctional Services websiteNT Prisons and probation websiteDarwin Correctional Centre website
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Facilities

Notable prisoners

See also

References

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