Emu Plains Correctional Centre (EPCC) is located on Darug country at the base of the Blue Mountains. EPCC is currently a minimum security mens work release facility located in Greater Western Sydney. The location also houses women participating in the Mothers and Children Program at Jacaranda Cottages.
EPCC’s physical site previously operated as a prison farm for men. In 1994 Corrective Services NSW’s (CSNSW) planning unit developed a Women’s Action Plan which included recommendations to make custodial settings in NSW more responsive to the needs and experience of women. One recommendation was to redevelop and recommission the prison farm at Emu Plains as a minimum security correctional centre for women. EPCC was opened in 1995, with accommodation for 70 women.
We first inspected Emu Plains CC in 2015 and 2016 as part of our report Prison Greens: The clothing and bedding of inmates in NSW. We then inspected EPCC for the Inspection of Emu Plains Correctional Centre report in 2021; this report made 18 recommendations and was tabled in NSW Parliament on 16 May 2022. At the time it was operating as a minimum security centre for women.
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