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.
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).
Taylor was cleared on charges of extortion after accused of October 2019 attack
50-year-old was held in custody until Thursday on more than 100 other charges
Released after spending 202 days in jail with a month in solitary confinement
Dozens of charges were dropped; no evidence offered for more than 70 counts
The reality TV star looked unrecognisable as she fronted cameras upon release
Mark Chopper Read s adopted sister says being deported from Australia saved her life
By Kirsty Lawrence
Now, the 49-year-old admits being deported as a 501 probably saved her life.
But after almost 20 years with no offending in New Zealand, she doesn t understand why she is not allowed back into Australia, not even to grieve. Murderers in prison in Australia get day release to go to funerals. I wasn t allowed back for my own father s funeral, even if I paid for my own security.
Nicole Marie Sutorius, deported in the early 2000s, has talked about how she fared after she was deported from Australia.(Stuff)
Sutorius is not the only 501 unhappy with how things have been handled, with a group of 501 deportees planning to take a class action lawsuit against the Australian Government over their treatment. To her knowledge she is one of the first people ever deported under the 501 scheme when she was sent back to New Zealand in the early 2000s. The 501 deporting scheme had been in legislation since 1958, but Sutorius said when she was deported, nobody was aware it existed. “I don’t know anyone else who came earlier than me.” The adopted little sister of the notorious Mark “Chopper” Read, who was a key player in the criminal underworld in Melbourne, Sutorius has lived a colourful life.