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Cooma Correctional Centre
Minimum to medium securityHigh
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Background
Cooma Correctional Centre, an Australian minimum to medium prison for males, is located in Cooma, New South Wales. The centre is operated by Corrective Services NSW an agency of the Department of Communities and Justice of the Government of New South Wales. The centre detains sentenced prisoners under New South Wales and/or Commonwealth legislation. In 1957 up to 1984, Cooma operated as the world's only prison specifically for detaining men convicted of homosexual offences - as well as experiments done on gay men. In March 2025, it was officially added to the NSW Heritage Registry.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
160
Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1873
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
Corrective Services NSWPopulation held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1873
Region
NSW
Security level
—
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
1-5 Vale Street, Cooma, NSW, Cooma
Conditions Risk Score
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Compared to other facilities in Australia
261 peersCapacity (beds)this: 160 · peers avg: 345 (54%)
Data completeness
48%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Geoscience Australia Correctional Facilities dataset
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Geoscience Australia â National Correctional Facilities — Geoscience Australia
- Wikidata (Q5167546)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Cooma Correctional Centre. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/cooma-correctional-centre
Chicago
"Cooma Correctional Centre." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/cooma-correctional-centre.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-cooma-correctional-centre,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Cooma Correctional Centre},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/cooma-correctional-centre},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}