Entrance, Darling Downs Correctional Centre, November 2012, by Butterworth, Lee, courtesy of Lee Butterworth.
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The Darling Downs Correctional Centre was an open custody facility located 15 kilometres south west of the city of Toowoomba in southern Queensland. It was run by the Queensland Government. The site was previously home to the Westbrook Youth Detention Centre which closed in 1994. In the same year the site was transformed into an adult correctional centre that maintained an on-site farm and ran a dairy. Upon closure of the facility, the herd of approximately 240 dairy cattle was sold off at auction. The Darling Downs Correctional Centre was closed in August 2012 and the property was put up for sale.
1871 - 1881 Reformatory School for Boys - Hulk Proserpine
1881 - 1899 Reformatory School for Boys, Lytton
1899 - 1900 Diamantina Reformatory School for Boys
1900 - 1919 Westbrook Reformatory for Boys
1919 - 1966 Farm Home for Boys, Westbrook
1966 - 1987 Westbrook Training Centre
1987 - 1993 Westbrook Youth Centre
1993 - 1994 Westbrook Youth Detention Centre
1994 - 2012 Darling Downs Correctional Centre
Prepared by: Lee Butterworth
Created: 8 February 2013, Last modified: 18 June 2014
Last updated: 7 August 2023
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