Note on terminology: Before 1890, prisons were officially referred to as ‘gaols’. Under the 'Corrective Services Act 1988' all prisons became Correctional Centres. A ‘Police Gaol’ was staffed by police officers only and used for short-term prisoners.
- 1824-42: Moreton Bay Penal Settlement
- 1849-60: H.M. Gaol, Brisbane, Queen Street
- 1860-83: H.M. Gaol, Brisbane, Petrie Terrace
- 1863-1903: Fortitude Valley Police Gaol
- 1864-67: Proserpine (prison hulk), Brisbane River, Fort Lytton
- 1864-84: H.M. Gaol, Rockhampton
- 1864-1903: H.M. Gaol, Toowoomba
- 1865-32: St Helena Island Penal Establishment, Moreton Bay
- 1872-1903: H.M. Gaol, Roma
- 1877: Maryborough lock-up proclaimed a gaol for the purpose of an execution
- 1877-1891: Thursday Island Police Gaol
- 1878-93: H.M. Prison, Townsville
- ca.1881-91: Blackall Police Gaol
- 1883-1992: H.M. Prison, Brisbane, Boggo Road, Woolloongabba (male)
- 1883-93: Mackay Police Gaol
- 1884-1939: H.M. Gaol, Rockhampton (2nd)
- ca.1884-93: Cooktown Police Gaol
- 1886-1924: Ingham Police Gaol
- 1887-1902: Ayr Police Gaol
- 1888-92: Croydon Police Gaol
- 1888-1902: Charters Towers Police Gaol
- 1891-1983: H.M. Prison, Thursday Island
- 1891-1902: H.M. Prison, Blackall
- 1891-1935: H.M. Prison, Mackay
- 1891-93: Normanton Police Gaol
- 1893-1939: H.M Penal Establishment, Stewarts Creek, Townsville
- 1893-1922: H.M. Prison, Cooktown
- 1893-1945: H.M. Prison, Normanton
- 1893-94: Tambo Police Gaol
- 1897-1925: H.M. Prison, Cairns
- 1897-1902: Herberton Police Gaol
- 1897-98: Camooweal Police Gaol (reopened 1898-1902)
- 1903-1999: H.M. Prison, Brisbane, Boggo Road, Woolloongabba (female)
- 1903-23: Roma Police Gaol
- 1934- : H.M State Farm, Palen Creek, Rathdowney
- 1939-68: Rockhampton Police Gaol
- 1939- : H.M. Prison, Townsville (2nd)
- 1940- : Numinbah State Prison farm
- 1943-49: Whitenbah Prison, near Nerang
- 1944-62: H.M State Farm Stone River, near Ingham
- 1944-46: Marburg Prison Farm
- 1957-2000: H.M. Prison, Wacol (later ‘Moreton A’)
- 1968-2001: H.M. Prison, Rockhampton (also known as Etna Creek)
- 1971-2001: Security Patients Hospital (later ‘Moreton B’), Wacol
- 1973-91: H.M. Prison, Woodford
- 1988- : H.M. Brisbane Industrial Prison, Wacol (later Sir David Longlands Correctional Centre, then Brisbane Correctional Centre [2008])
- 1988- : Chewka (now Lotus Glen Correctional Centre)
- 1988- : Borallon Correctional Centre (privatised)
- 1992- : Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre, Wacol (privatised 1992)
- 1997- : Woodford Correctional Centre
- 1999- : Wolston Correctional Centre, Wacol
- 1999- : Brisbane Women’s Correctional Centre, Wacol
- 2001- Capricornia Correctional Centre, Rockhampton
- 2003- : Maryborough Correctional Centre
