Silverwater Women's Correctional Centre
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| Name of General Manager | Brian Bartlett |
| Year of Establishment | 1970 |
| Postal Address | Locked bag 130 Australia Post Business Centre Silverwater NSW 1811 |
| Street Address | Holker St Silverwater NSW 2128 |
| How to Get There | Public Transport: See Silverwater Correctional Complex public transport directions. City Rail Information Private Transport: See Silverwater Correctional Complex private transport directions. |
| Phone no. | (02) 9289 5100 |
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| Health Care Services | Offered programs such as AIDS awareness, harm minimisation, conflict resolution, drug issues and anger management. A Regional Aboriginal Officer liaises with Aboriginal health and legal services. |
| Education & Skill Development | Inmates assemble airline passenger headsets. The Adult Education and Vocational Training Institute (AEVTI) provides literacy, numeracy and communications courses in all centres. Many centres also offer vocational courses such as Information Technology, Horticulture, Construction, Visual Arts and Contemporary Craft. AEVTI contracts TAFE NSW and other providers to deliver courses in a range of vocational areas such as Hospitality, Business Skills, Building, Cleaning, Transport, Aboriginal Studies, Horticulture and various WorkCover licenses. AEVTI also co-ordinates traineeships and apprenticeships and offers support for distance education. Each centre has a library giving inmates access to a range of fiction, non-fiction and reference books. Inmates can also login to a secure internal network called the Inmate Legal Portal which gives them access to material of a legal nature. |
| Level of Security | Maximum |
| Availability of Activities | Availability of Activities |
| Contact with Outside World | Family Visits Thursday - Sunday & Public Holidays: Inmates will be locked in at 11:30-12:30. Protection visits plus extreme high risk visits: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday & Fridays Legal Visits Monday and Tuesdays are reserved for Professional visits. Legal visits are available 7 days. Notification of intention to visit should be made by telephoning the centre on (02) 9289 5399. |
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