Goulburn Correctional Complex consists of two separate correctional centres, Goulburn Correctional Centre (Goulburn CC) and the High Risk Management Correctional Centre (HRMCC). Goulburn Correctional Complex is located on the land of the Gundungurra people on Maud Street in Goulburn, approximately 197 kilometres south-west of Sydney.
The maximum security area of Goulburn CC opened in 1884, making it one of the oldest correctional centres operating in NSW. The HRMCC was purpose-built to hold inmates considered to require the highest level of security and opened in 2001.
Goulburn CC holds male inmates and has maximum and minimum security areas. HRMCC holds sentenced and unsentenced inmates with AA or A1 security classifications and/or a security designation. For this reason, it is known colloquially as ‘supermax’.
We inspected Goulburn CC and the HRMCC for the first time in 2017 as part of our inspection of the Management of Radicalised Inmates in NSW. We then inspected the Goulburn Correctional Complex in March 2021 for the Inspection of Goulburn Correctional Centre and the High Risk Management Correctional Centre report, which was tabled in NSW Parliament on 2 June 2022. We made 36 recommendations in this report.
We will be inspecting the Goulburn Correctional Complex in 2026.
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