Broken Hill Correctional Centre is a medium security Australian prison housing males and females, located in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. The prison holds both sentenced and remand inmates. It also serves as the reception prison for a large area of far western New South Wales, bordered by Queensland in the north, Victoria in the south, and South Australia in the west.
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