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The ultimate in privileges for males within the SA correctional system is to be accommodated in the Adelaide Pre-Release Centre which runs programs and day leave schemes enabling prisoners to attend education, work and some rehabilitative programs outside the prison.
The pre-release centre has a capacity for 70 male prisoners in cottage-style accommodation.
The objective of the centre is to ease prisoners back into their community, often after long periods of imprisonment. Many of these people may have lost previous skills or be unemployable in their former jobs so it is imperative that as quickly as possible they are up-skilled through either education or work programs.
It is also important for them to re-establish close links and contact with their family. To enable this, a system of family leaves are available to select prisoners which may begin with leave for a short time accompanied by a prison officer, to unaccompanied leave for a short period and then for longer periods such as a weekend.
Prisoners living at the Centre are responsible for all their own domestic tasks.
The Department also has the ability to place prisoners in James Nash House, a high security unit for psychologically disturbed people. This institution can take 30 people, both men and women.
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