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The Remand Centre, located in Currie Street, Adelaide, is capable of accommodating up to 267 male people who have been remanded in custody by the courts. About 60% of these people are released on bail or don’t receive a custodial sentence.
Experience indicates that a person on remand is more likely to attempt to escape or commit self harm and mainly for that reason the Remand Centre is a high security prison.
While in the Remand Centre, offenders are able to receive visits regularly and where possible special visits can and are arranged at times which are usually not convenient.
Apart from exercise yards, remandees do not have any access to the outside. Their cells are in several accommodation units in which they take their meals and associate for most of the time.
Remandees can chose to go to exercise yards or the recreation centre which has weight lifting equipment, a squash court, multi-purpose courts for volleyball etc, and an education centre where computer technology is taught.
The Centre has its own fully equipped infirmary where nursing staff and doctors, employed by SA Forensic Health Services, can treat most ailments although, as in the case of all prisons, if the illness or injury requires further treatment the remandee can be taken under escort to hospital.
Males who are initially remanded in custody in Adelaide will spend the remand period in the Remand Centre unless there is a need for them to be transferred to Yatala Labour Prison which can be the case for long-term remandees.
Sentenced male prisoners are initially accommodated in the assessment unit of Yatala Labour Prison for a sentence or case plan to be compiled.
This plan will determine the immediate and perhaps long-term needs of the prisoner.
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