[3] The Australian quoted Northern Territory Supreme Court Justice Dean Mildren as saying the conditions do not comply with Australia's international obligations; The Australian also cited the strongest criticisms of the prison's conditions as coming from the Territory's executive director of Correctional Services, Ken Middlebrook, while Correctional Services Minister Gerry McCarthy challenged the report that prisoners were served rotten food.

[4] In 2009, the NT News reported there was a gang riot at the prison caused by heightened tension from overcrowding and staff shortages, with several jail blocks locked down.

[7] In 2008 it was reported that a chronic lack of social services in the Northern Territory was the reason for mentally-disabled persons being held for months in isolation at Berrimah Prison; the report also quoted the NT Government as indicating it is planning to build a forensic mental health unit as part of its planned new prison, but that it would not be designed as a substitute for social health services facilities.

[8] In 2010 the Northern Territory Government announced plans for a new correctional precinct to be built at Holtze to replace the Berrimah Prison.

The new location is 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) north of Howard Springs Road and includes a new men's and women's correctional centre and the Territory's first secure mental health and behavioural management facility.