Berrima Gaol, Colonial prison in Berrima, Australia

Berrima Correctional Centre is a colonial-era prison complex in the Wingecarribee region featuring sandstone walls and mid-nineteenth-century architecture. The site comprises several interconnected buildings that form a coherent institutional layout from that period.

The facility opened as Berrima Gaol in the eighteen-thirties and served as a prison for many decades thereafter. During World War I, it was repurposed as an internment camp for prisoners of war.

The prison's separate-system regime kept inmates in solitary confinement, with two pitch-dark cells used for sensory deprivation. The outer walls were raised by 1.5 m in the 1860s and a new eastern wall and gatehouse added. The site is now closed and was sold to a Sydney developer in 2022.

The prison closed in 2020 and the site was sold to a Sydney property developer in 2022, so there is no public entry or guided tour. The complex stands within Berrima village in the Southern Highlands, its walls and gatehouse visible from the surrounding streets. The nearest large centre is Goulburn, about 60 kilometres south-west.

The design came from the Colonial Architect's Office, not James Barnet, and was shaped by the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline, which favoured a panopticon plan. Convict iron gangs built it, completing the work in 1839. The first break came that October, when two cattle duffers escaped.