Broome Regional Prison is an Australian

prison A prison, also known as a jail, gaol (dated, standard English, Australian, and historically in Canada), penitentiary (American English and Canadian English), detention center (or detention centre outside the US), correction center, corre ...

in Broome, Western Australia. It is one of two prisons in Western Australia's Kimberley region. In 2012 it was announced that the prison would be closed in 2015 following the opening of the

West Kimberley Regional Prison West Kimberley Regional Prison is an Australian prison near Derby in the Kimberley region of north-western Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land ...

Derby Derby ( ) is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England. It lies on the banks of the River Derwent in the south of Derbyshire, which is in the East Midlands Region. It was traditionally the county town of Derbyshire. Derby g ...

, but this plan was shelved in 2015.

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