Palen Creek prison farm, 1939

Palen Creek prison farm, 1939. State farms, or ‘honour prisons’, are low-security facilities used to house low-risk inmates. The first of these opened at Palen Creek, south of Brisbane near the New South Wales border, in 1934 and was the first prison in the Commonwealth to have no security measures, relying entirely on the honour of the prisoners not to escape. Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 189041

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