New prison will set benchmark for needs of Aboriginal offenders
Source: Western Australia. Minister for Corrective Services. Media Release
"Plans for the West Kimberley Prison are progressing well with architects now engaged, surveyors on site, one community advisory group established and another in the advanced planning stages. Corrective Services Minister Margaret Quirk visited the prison site, six kilometres south of Derby, to deliver a project update. “As I have said all along, I am determined that this facility will be different from existing prisons in WA,” Ms Quirk said. “It is being designed to specifically meet the needs of Aboriginal offenders, setting a benchmark for future prisons and the management of Aboriginal prisoners."