St Heliers Correctional Centre
St Heliers Correctional Centre is a prison farm for men located outside the town of Muswellbrook, New South Wales, Australia, and operated by the Corrective Services division of the State Department of Justice. St Heliers generally holds offenders serving sentences under State or Australian criminal law and has a capacity of 256. History. The property was originally settled by Lieutenant Colonel Henry Dumaresq and named after Saint Helier, Jersey. The New South Wales State Government purchased the property in 1945 and it was used as a child welfare institution until its closure in 1986. It reopened  as a correctional Centre in September 1989. The centre is largely self-sufficient in terms of beef and vegetable produce and provides the 9,700 prisoners in the other low security prisons in NSW with food. At peak, the centre runs 350 head of cattle. Inmates are also involved in furniture restoration, work in a local abattoir, and help maintain the Muswellbrook Cemetery and Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The mobile outreach program of the correctional centre has worked on signage and restoration of the Great North Road, a trail from Sydney to the Hunter Valley built by convict labour during the 1820s , and listed on both the Australian National Heritage List and UNESCO's World Heritage list. The mobile prison program was suspended in 2003. In 2012 the centre commenced a thoroughbred retraining and rehabilitation program in conjunction with Racing NSW.