listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. Industries Inmates at the Centre may be employed in Corrective Service Industries (CSI) food services, the commercial laundry, technology/packaging and packaging business units. Inmates can also do general ground, horticulture, cleaning and building maintenance work on and outside the complex. CSI also operates the Girrawaa Creative Centre, employing around 15 Indigenous inmates at a time. The program is aimed at developing inmates' artistic skills while creating Aboriginal artefacts for sale. Pieces such as boomerangs, paintings, coasters, clapsticks and didgeridoos are produced for sale to the public directly from the gallery, online, to government agencies, and to wholesalers. Notable inmates Bob Merritt (1945–2011), Aboriginal writer, who wrote the play The Cake Man in the prison See also Stir, 1980 film loosely based on the riots at the prison in 1974 References Citations Sources Attribution External links Bathurst Correctional Centre webpage - part of the Corrective Services NSW Bathurst, New South Wales Prisons in New South Wales 1888 establishments in Australia James Barnet buildings Infrastructure completed in 1888 New South Wales State Heritage Register