kindness in placing them under the treatment, stating that they were grateful for the concessions allowed to them in the way of reading and light at night." Marble cutting and polishing provided works for the prisoners between 1893 and 1925. The gaol accommodated the tougher and more experienced prisoners until 1914 when the gaol then catered for the "previously convicted but hopeful cases". During WW1, rural industries such as dairy, pig-raising, market gardening, hay and fodder production were established. During WW2, the gaol was used as an internment camp for some 200 German and other "enemy aliens". In 1957–62, a new cell block was built outside the gaol's wall with accommodation for 94 prisoners. In 1974, riots at the gaol caused much damage to the main buildings. The gaol generally accommodated prisoners where they "were deemed amenable to reformative influences" up until 1970 where the gaol was reclassified as a maximum security prison. Riots The Bathurst riots and Bathurst batterings were a series of violent disturbances and reprisals that occurred at the gaol in October 1970 and February 1974. The second outbreak of violence led to the partial destruction and temporary closure of the prison, and ultimately to a Royal Commission into the State's prison system. Name change Between 1992 and 1993, the name of Bathurst Gaol was changed to Bathurst Correctional Centre. Description Bathurst Gaol is composed of a square compound with a gatehouse and two watch towers located at the far corners. The Governor and Deputy Governors Residences are located outside the main compound walls. Internally the (now demolished) chapel formed the focus of the gaol. Four cell ranges and the cookhouse radiated out from the chapel. On one side of the chapel forecourt was the totally separated female compound. On the other side was the male hospital. Bathurst and Goulburn gaols were almost identical in plan. Goulburn however remains more intact. Notable prisoners Rodney Adler (2005–06)disgraced Australian businessman and former company director Jim McNeil (James Thomas McNeil) (1935-1982), (1973–74) violent criminal who became better known as the 'prison playwright' Michael Murdoch, convicted in the murder of Anita Cobby Heritage listing Bathurst Gaol is significant as one of two model prisons designed by the Colonial Architect's Office in the late 1870s and early 1880s; as an indication of advances in penal architecture in the late nineteenth century; for its continued use as a gaol. Bathurst Correctional Complex was