After consultation with Queensland Health, we are moving to Stage 1 restrictions as of 6am Friday. This means that personal visits will be able to booked.
Gina, Custodial Correctional Officer (CCO), Brisbane Correctional Centre
Gina emigrated from England when she was 14 and joined Queensland Corrective Services as a CCO after graduating from university when she was only 20.
For the past eight years, Gina has dedicated her career to community safety working as a CCO in the Protection Accommodation Area at Brisbane Correctional Centre (BCC).
“As a CCO I am driven by commitment and opportunity to make a difference everyday by playing my part in making Queensland a safer place to live,” Gina said.
“Although it is my main goal to protect the community, I am provided with a rare opportunity to encourage rehabilitation and make a difference by assisting individuals to become better, more productive members of our society.
Woodford Correctional Centre
Under Stage 2 restrictions, personal visits are unable to occur.. Virtual Personal Visits can still be booked as normal.
Community Corrections will move to Stage 2 restrictions in Townsville District and also Hervey Bay District Office south to the border and west to Ipswich District Office. All other Community Corrections offices will move to Stage 1 restrictions.
Anyone entering a correctional centre will continue to undergo health screening and temperature checks. For the safety of our officers and the prisoners in our care, please do not come for a visit if you are unwell or showing any COVID-19 symptoms, even if they are minor (please self-isolate and get tested immediately).
A sexual sadist and paedophile who raped a psychiatric patient and slit her throat with a broken glass bottle has been released from jail, despite pleas from doctors he is at high risk of re-offending.
Mark Richard Lawrence, 59, was allowed to walk free from Brisbane Correctional Centre after a court ruled Queensland s Attorney-General failed to prove he was likely to breach a current supervision order.
He was originally locked up in 1983 for the Boxing Day rape and murder of Julie Anne Muirhead, 29, and was sentenced to 15 years.
Mark Richard Lawrence, 59, was originally locked up for the Boxing Day rape and murder of Julie Anne Muirhead, 29, (pictured)