page_title: Long Bay Correctional Centre
section_title: Long Bay Jail history
hierarchical_section_title: Long Bay Correctional Centre / History / Long Bay Jail history
caption_attribution_description: PaulKellyLongBay - photo taken and uploaded by Paul Moss, Photographer, Artist, Paul Moss Photographer Artist NZ Paul Moss has supplied further information on the creation of this image in response to my questions via email: 1) Were you involved in making the video of PK&amp;tCG's performance at Long Bay Gaol? 2) Were you an employee of Stuart Coupe or Paul Kelly Management in 1985? 3) Was the photo taken from a TV program/VHS tape, if so which? 4) How was the image released into the public domain? 5) Is there a clearer print of the scene? Answers from Paul Moss: 1/ YES. I was the only video-grapher, the footage was made on my own equipment, at my own cost. (Sony HVC4000P and F1) 2/ I was asked to make the video by and for Stuart Coupe, while he was PK manager. 3/ The photo was taken from my original video tape, it was sony betamax format, by me. I took a 35mm film photo of the screen in 1987, played directly, and subsequently scanned the print. 4/ I uploaded the file to Wikipedia, I claimed the right to release the image. 5/ I don't know if the vhs copy is still existant, but if it is I could make a clearer copy. I could certainly make a new file without the text on it. I thank Paul Moss for supplying this additional information.shaidar cuebiyar (talk) 08:40, 12 May 2010 (UTC) Recent Documentary played on ABC Television. On demand here: My Long Bay Jail Footage (Dec 24th 1986) was requested for this doco, but no one could find a copy.. Paul Kelly - Stories of Me charts the remarkable life of one of Australia's most gifted and beloved singer-songwriters. ABC TV / http://ab.co/HeO9ch
context_page_description: The Long Bay Correctional Complex, commonly called Long Bay, is a correctional facility comprising a heritage-listed maximum and minimum security prison for males and females and a hospital to treat prisoners, psychiatric cases and remandees, located in Malabar, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The complex is located approximately 14 kilometres south of the Sydney CBD and is contained within a 32-hectare site. The facility is operated by Corrective Services NSW, a department administered by the Government of New South Wales.
  The Complex accepts sentenced and unsentenced felons under New South Wales and/or Commonwealth legislation and comprises three separate facilities including the Long Bay Hospital; the Metropolitan Special Programs Centre; and the Special Purpose Centre.
  On 6 May 2016 the NSW Government announced that the Long Bay Correctional Complex will close when a new correctional facility opens, expected to be built in Wollondilly Shire.
  Designed by Walter Liberty Vernon, the complex is listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register with the following statement of significance:
  The former State Penitentiary is of considerable significance.
context_section_description: Long Bay was opened due to the imminent closure of Darlinghurst Gaol. The State Reformatory for Women was opened in 1909 and the State Penitentiary for Men was opened beside it in 1914. Gallows were in operation at the complex from 1917 to 1939. The reformatory became part of the prison in the late 1950s, known as the Long Bay Penitentiary. After the Silverwater Women's Correctional Centre (formerly known as Mulawa) was opened in 1970, the women's prison was vacated and converted into a medium security prison for men.
  A report on prison reform released in 1946 found overcrowding at Long Bay. It recommended that sewerage replace pan systems in major gaols and that prisoners should have two more hours each day out of their cells.
  On Christmas Eve (24 December) 1985, Australian musician Paul Kelly performed at Long Bay.
  A significant public health case arose in July 1990 when a mentally ill, HIV-positive prisoner was being escorted in the exercise yard. The prisoner took a syringe filled with his blood and stabbed a probationary prison officer. The prison officer was diagnosed with the virus five weeks later and died in 1997, aged 28.
  In the late 1990s the facility was redeveloped to offer special treatment units which offer programs for sex offenders; those with intellectual disabilities; drug and alcohol abuse; or the use of violence.
caption: Paul Kelly & the Coloured Girls, Long Bay Gaol, Christmas Eve, 1985
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