Global InformationWolston Correctional Centre information
 | This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. (September 2007) |
  Location in Queensland | |
| Location | Wacol, Queensland |
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| Coordinates | 27°35′9.29″S 152°54′13.66″E / 27.5859139°S 152.9037944°E |
| Status | Operational |
| Security class | High |
| Capacity | 900 |
| Opened | 1999 |
| Managed by | Queensland Corrective Services |
Wolston Correctional Centre is an Australian high-security prison facility in Wacol, Queensland, Australia. Wolston is a 'protection' prison, and as such houses many paedophiles,[clarification needed] sex offenders and high-profile prisoners.
In addition to those classes of prisoner mentioned above, the majority of prisoners at Wolston Correctional Centre are non-sex-offender prisoners, who have been transferred to the protection prison from other mainstream prisons because they have provided information to prison authorities about fellow inmates and their safety has been threatened. These types of prisoners are known as "informers", or more colloquially in prison slang as "dogs".
Like most Queensland prisons, Wolston Correctional Centre is severely overcrowded, with some cells designed for a single prisoner accommodating two or more prisoners. This is often achieved by requiring one or more of the prisoners to sleep on the floor. Such overcrowding has led to a dramatic increase in violent assaults as such cramped living conditions increases psychological stress and discomfort of inmates. It is also often the prison guards who become the victims of such assaults, as reported in a 2018 ABC News article.[1]
- ^ Wordsworth, Matt (7 August 2018). "Inmate attack caught on video amid rising tensions in overcrowded prisons". ABC News. Archived from the original on 19 December 2018. Retrieved 11 June 2019.