A new building that will host a High Intensity Program Unit was transported to the South Coast Correctional Centre on Wednesday.
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You may have seen the building, in pieces on trucks, parked up along the Princes Highway at South Nowra this week.
The unit at Nowra is purpose-built to help the inmates get their lives back on track, and is one of 10 High Intensity Program Units planned for seven correctional centres across the state.
The 40-place unit at the South Nowra centre will focus on inmates convicted of domestic violence offences and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inmates.
This program targets inmates on short sentences who often have limited or no access to rehabilitation while in custody.
Over 80 new roles have been created across the state to implement the new strategy.
The South Coast Correctional Centre, opened in 2010, is a male maximum, medium and minimum security facility with over 600 beds.
The centre is also being expanded to include an additional 160 maximum-security and 200 minimum-security beds.
The expansion is part of the NSW government’s $3.8 billion Prison Bed Capacity program to meet the demands of an increasing prison population.
Almost 300 jobs will be created and millions of dollars will be injected into the Shoalhaven economy during and after construction, which also includes a new industries building and extensions of the perimeter fence, visits area, clinic and car park.