1/16Inmate walks along corridor in the Katingal section of Long Bay Jail in Sydney, 17/03/89 (1989). Pic Peter Brennan.
Inside Katingal Maximum Security Prison
Sterilised walls, concrete beds and windowless cells ... these incredible images show just how brutal life was inside Katingal Maximum Security — Long Bay’s prison within a prison.
2/16Katingal: Sydney's maximum security prison within a prison: Automatic Controls 1978
3/16A typical Katingal cell. Picture: Sue Paull
4/16Katingal: Sydney's maximum security prison within a prison: The exercise yard in 1977.
5/16Katingal: Sydney’s maximum security prison within a prison: Media get a tour of the cell area in 1978.
6/16Katingal: Sydney’s maximum security prison within a prison: Police assemble outside in 1979.
7/16Katingal: Sydney’s maximum security prison within a prison.
8/16Katingal: Sydney’s maximum security prison within a prison.
9/16Two blocks of cells controlled by electonic panels at Katingal in Long Bay Jail in Sydney,
10/16A typical cell in the Katingal section of Long Bay Jail in Sydney in 1978.
11/16Cellblocks of Katingal Security section at Long Bay Jail in Sydney, Picture: Doug Drummond
12/16Katingal section of Long Bay Jail in Sydney in 1978.
13/16Katingal: Sydney's maximum security prison within a prison:
14/16Katingal: Sydney’s maximum security prison within a prison.
15/16Katingal: Sydney’s maximum security prison within a prison in 1978.
16/16Katingal: Sydney’s maximum security prison within a prison. Police assemble outside in 1979.
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