THE final inmate transfer from Wellington Correctional Centre has been completed, according to Corrective Services NSW, and prisons all over the state, including Bathurst and Lithgow, have all of their new arrivals.
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The transfers have taken place due to the mice plague around Wellington.
Corrective Services NSW Commissioner Peter Severin said more than 420 inmates had been transported to nine prisons across the state, including Bathurst.
"This two-week operation was unprecedented and I want to thank the staff involved for ensuring it was a success," he said.
"The safe and secure transport of these inmates - 270 of them maximum-security - involved the collaboration of officers working in custodial, transport, intelligence, sentence administration and finance.
"Thirty-one transport trucks moved 50 women to Dillwynia and Broken Hill correctional centres, and the men to the Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre, and Bathurst, Lithgow, Junee, Macquarie, Tamworth and South Coast correctional centres."
IN OTHER NEWS AROUND BATHURST:
Assistant commissioner, custodial corrections, Kevin Corcoran, said phase two of the operation will involve redeploying about 200 staff to other workplaces and training opportunities while remediation work is undertaken at Wellington.
Bathurst Correctional Centre's $160 million expansion, in which 220 maximum security beds were added for male inmates, was opened in late 2020.
The two new wings at the jail, according to Corrective Services NSW, have state-of-the-art security, including full body scanners.
Each room in the new wings has been designed to operate as a single cell, but can also accommodate two inmates if need be.
