The $653 million expansion to the Southern Queensland Correctional Centre at Spring Creek is estimated to be completed in 2023, providing 1000 workers with employment throughout construction and creating more than 600 permanent jobs.
Simon Hughes, Project Director at John Holland, said at the Lockyer Valley Chamber of Commerce breakfast on Wednesday that the project would help address overcrowding in the Queensland prison and corrections system. John Holland Project Director, Simon Hughes, discusses Stage Two of the Southern Queensland Correctional Centre at the Lockyer Valley Chamber of Commerce Breakfast on February 17, 2021. Photo: Hugh Suffell.
Mr Hughes said the facility would adopt a health and rehabilitation operating model to enhance safer communities as well through mental health and drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs.