00:01The smallest cells, two by two and a half metres, with a double bunk.
00:07But for the women incarcerated, there's more space in the yard.
00:11This is the first standalone prison facility for women in the Northern Territory.
00:16The former youth justice facility renovated into the women's prison, costing $10.35 million,
00:23able to house roughly half of the 180 women in the NT's justice system on any given day.
00:30This is a really exciting outcome for NT Corrections and something that we've been working on for a year.
00:36Female prisoners have previously been housed in accommodation in the middle of the men's prison.
00:41But this has been criticised as unsafe because some women would have to walk past men
00:46who'd perpetrated violence against them to access lawyers or nurses.
00:50NT Corrections says it's critical women are imprisoned separately to men.
00:55And that's about getting the right therapeutic mix here in Alice Springs for women,
01:00getting them out from behind the wire of the major male facility and providing them with their own space.
01:05Many women in our facilities have experienced significant trauma and have complex needs.
01:10And we are working really hard with our experienced clinicians to develop and deliver programs that meet those needs.
01:16The first, but not the last, in the Territory.
01:19We're planning to do one Darwin in the future.
01:21No time frame yet on One for Darwin.
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