The newly upgraded Cessnock Correctional Centre will be home to the country's first purpose-built maximum security sex offenders unit. Construction work on the $97 million expansion began two ...

Cessnock Correctional Centre general manager David Mumford said prisoners would be moved into the complex from all over the state - including Long Bay and Parklea - as early as next week to fill ...

Hunter Valley police received intelligence about the plan to drop contraband into Cessnock Correctional Centre on Sunday and later stopped a Holden Commodore on Maitland Rd about 11.45pm.

A man, 37, died at the Cessnock Correctional Centre on Tuesday morning, after being found unresponsive in his cell about 10am, a Corrective Services NSW spokeswoman confirmed. “He was found ...

A 37-year-old man at Cessnock Correctional Centre has become the sixth death in custody in two months. Source: AAP Image/ Joe Castro Corrective Services NSW have confirmed a 37-year-old man died ...