AGY-491 | Emu Plains Prison Farm (1914-1916) / Emu Plains Irrigation Farm (1916-1917) / Emu Plains Prison Farm (1917-1949) / Emu Plains Training Centre (1949-1992) / Emu Plains Correctional Centre (1992- )

Emu Plains Prison Farm was proclaimed on 24 December 1914. (1) During 1914 the Government bought a property, contain about 107 acres in the vicinity Emu Plains Railway Station, for the purpose of vegetable growing and general farm work by prison labour. It was expected that eventually about fifty prisoners would be employed at that work. The Area was proclaimed a place of detention under the Prisons Act 1899 (Act No.27, 1899). (2) The Farm was operational on 12 April 1915 with the arrival of the first batch of ten prisoners from the Goulburn Gaol, accompanied by the Comptroller-General of Prisons. The Minister of Justice made an inspection of the farm on 4 June 1915 and encouraged the prisoners. During the period to the end of 1915 there was a daily average of 14 prisoners on the farm with average of nine of them employed at agricultural work. (3) On 31 August 1916 the farm was disestablished as a place of detention and placed entirely under the control of the Department of Agriculture and was known as the Emu Plains Irrigation Farm and prisoners were transferred mainly to Goulburn. (4) The Government placed the farm again under the control of the Prisons Department and from 12 November 1917 the farm was re-established as a place of detention called Emu Plains Prison Farm. It was followed by a Governor's proclamation on 14 November 1917. Most of the employed prisoners were under 25 years age and they were engaged in raising vegetables, tending pigs and cattle and in farm work generally. (5) From 19 November 1949 the place of detention was styled and known as Emu Plains Training Centre. (6) In the following years the number of prisoners was increased and 1965-1969 there were in custody daily average of between 105-111 prisoners. (7) The Emu Plains Training Centre was abolished as a permanent detention centre by proclamation from 17 March 1976, and restablished as a periodic detention centre under the same name. (8) From 1992 Emu Plains Training Centre was unofficially renamed Emu Plains Correctional Centre and had an average daily 145 of prisoners in custody. (9) From the beginning of 1914 the Emu Plains Correctional Centre was a place for male prisoners until 1995 when it became a female detention centre. The last male inmates at Centre were transferred on 20 February 1995, and the first female inmates were received on 22 February 1995. (10) Under the Correctional Centres Act 1952 (Act No.9, 1952) the Emu Plains Training Centre was officially revoked as a