• 17 new Custodial Correctional Officers join the public safety frontline in Far North Queensland. • All 17 have completed the 10-week Custodial Officer Entry program including on-the-job training. • The new officers are now ready to play their role in protecting community safety. Queensland Corrective Services welcomed
Queensland Corrective Services can confirm officers responded to a medical emergency involving a prisoner at Brisbane Women’s Correctional Centre last night (30 May 2025). Officers responded before QAS arrived on site and transported the individual to hospital. Support is being offered to the responding officers and their
Queensland Corrective Services can confirm a death in custody at Woodford Correctional Centre overnight. The 64-year-old man was accommodated in a single cell and was found unresponsive at approximately 10pm. Responding officers called QAS and attempted to revive the man however their efforts were unsuccessful. The incident has
You may have seen some coverage of a report into deaths in custody in Australia. We thought you might like to see the response provided to media on this topic: Queensland has the second highest prison population in Australia, behind NSW. The Queensland prison population has
QCS can confirm that a corrective services officer was injured in an incident with a prisoner at Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre yesterday. The officer, who has been praised for their quick thinking and response during the incident, was transported to hospital as a precautionary measure following
We don’t discuss the management of individual prisoners, however decisions relating to prisoners who are in Maximum Security Units are very carefully considered, with input from officers, multi-disciplinary teams including health experts. Transitioning MSU prisoners to lower classification accommodation is always accompanied by an Intensive Management
Officers at Palen Creek Correctional Centre (PCCC) have located a significant stash of contraband including drugs and mobile phones. As part of normal search activities, officers searching the grounds of the farm on the weekend uncovered an esky that had been buried near the perimeter. When opened,
Offenders under the supervision of Queensland Corrective Services are helping fire fighters and volunteers keep cool in bushfire affected areas of New South Wales and on the Sunshine Coast. As part of a community service project, a group of offenders under supervision in the community have
You may have seen some reporting about the cost of replacing damaged televisions in Queensland prisons recently, with allegations that taxpayers foot the bill for sets damaged by prisoners. We thought you might to like to know the truth. Taxpayers do not subsidise the provision of televisions
