Wolston Correctional Centre is an Australian high-security

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Wacol Wacol is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Wacol had a population of 3,761 people. Geography Wacol is bounded to the west by the Brisbane River and to the north loosely by Wolston Creek. It is south-west of t ...

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. Wolston is a 'protection' prison, and as such houses many paedophiles, sex offenders and high-profile prisoners. In addition to those classes of prisoner mentioned above, the majority of prisoners at Wolston Correctional Centre are non-sex-offender prisoners, who have been transferred to the protection prison from other mainstream prisons because they have provided information to prison authorities about fellow inmates and their safety has been threatened. These types of prisoners are known as "informers", or more colloquially in prison slang as "dogs". Like most Queensland prisons, Wolston Correctional Centre is severely overcrowded, with some cells designed for a single prisoner accommodating two or more prisoners. This is often achieved by requiring one or more of the prisoners to sleep on the floor. Such overcrowding has led to a dramatic increase in violent assaults as such cramped living conditions increases psychological stress and discomfort of inmates. It is also often the prison guards who become the victims of such assaults, as reported in a 2018 ABC News article.

Notable prisoners

* Mohamed Haneefan Indian doctor accused of aiding terrorists *

Leonard Fraser Leonard John Fraser (27 June 1951 – 1 January 2007), also known as The Rockhampton Rapist, was an Australian convicted serial killer. Biography Fraser was born in Ingham, Queensland in 1951 and moved to Sydney in 1957. He left school in th ...

serial killer * Robert Paul Long – Convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the 2000 Childers Palace Backpackers Hostel Fire which killed 15 backpackers. * Massimo "Max" Sica – convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the triple murder of his former girlfriend and two siblings * Gerard Baden-ClayMurderer - convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife Alison Baden-Clay *

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serial pedophile convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering Queensland school boy

Daniel Morcombe Daniel James Morcombe (19 December 1989 – 7 December 2003) was an Australian boy who was abducted from the Sunshine Coast, Queensland on 7 December 2003 when he was 13 years old. Eight years later, Brett Peter Cowan (born 18 September 1969), ...

Rick Thorburn Tiahleigh Alyssa Rose Palmer (sometimes known as Tia or Tiah) was a 12-year-old Australian girl who lived in Logan City, Queensland. She was murdered on 30 October 2015. Her remains were found six days later and her foster father, Rick Thorbur ...

– convicted of murdering foster daughter Tialeigh Palmer and sentenced to life imprisonment with non-parole of 20 years *

Paul Pisasale Paul Pisasale is a former mayor of the City of Ipswich in Queensland, Australia, and convicted extortionist. Pisasale was mayor of Ipswich from 2004 to 2017, making him one of Queensland's longest-serving mayors, and was last elected in 2016 wi ...

– former Lord Mayor of Ipswich convicted of extortionJailed former Ipswich mayor Paul Pisasale taken to hospital with exercise-related injury
/ref> * Jason Binney - high profile Dalby criminal, convicted of murder, arson and burglary

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Wolston Correctional CentrePrisoner Violence at record levels (ABC News article)
1999 establishments in Australia Prisons in Queensland Wacol, Queensland {{Queensland-struct-stub

Notable prisoners

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