A couple of hours drive out of Sydney nestled in prime sheep grazing country is Australia's most secure prison, where some of the country's worst criminals are held.
The High Risk Management Correctional Centre - better known as Supermax - is a modern jail within an old one, sitting in a corner of the Goulburn prison complex.
The facility houses men who cannot be allowed to mix in the wider prison system let alone walk free in the community but is within sight of suburban homes and farms.
Most of the older Anglo and Aboriginal prisoners who were here years ago are long gone and those who remain are now vastly outnumbered by young jihadis with Middle Eastern ancestry.
Whereas backpacker killer Ivan Milat once generated the most headlines from behind Supermax's bars, that dishonour now falls to prison menace Bassam Hamzy.
Supermax was opened in September 2001 within the grounds of what was originally called Goulburn Gaol, a heritage-listed institution established in 1884.
Goulburn, Australia's first inland city, is 197km south-west of Sydney and about 90km north-east of Canberra. The prison complex is on Maud Street, to the right of the Hume Highway if heading south.
Inside one of the austere cells at the High Risk Management Correctional Centre at Goulburn, which is 197km south-west of Sydney. All inmates in 'Supermax' sleep just one to a cell
Corrective Services officers remove ankle cuffs from an inmate inside his cell at Goulburn's Supermax prison. Prisoners are subject to extreme security measures throughout the jail
The High Risk Management Correctional Centre sits within the Goulburn prison complex. It may be the country's most secure prison but it is on the doorstep of houses and farming land
Officers put a Supermax inmate's bedding and belongings through a screening process to ensure they do not contain any contraband such as drugs, weapons or electronic devices
The main Goulburn jail is a maximum security facility which holds hundreds of the worst criminals in New South Wales.
The 75-bed Supermax has been home to men among the most dangerous in the country, with serial killers, mass murderers and terrorists in its cells.
NSW Corrections Minister David Elliott has described it as a 'Godless place'.
The centre was purpose-built to house inmates who require the highest level of security and more than 170 surveillance cameras monitor them 24 hours a day.
It looks nothing like the old Goulburn 'main' jail next door. The sterile corridors in Supermax are wide, the lights are bright and the cells are kept clean.
Supermax, which cost about $20million to build, is expensive to operate: it has been previously reported it costs more than $500 a day to house each inmate.
'It is money that I would prefer to see the government spend on hospitals and schools but it is money to ensure the community in NSW is safe,' Mr Elliott has said.
A Supermax inmate is moved from one area of the prison to another accompanied by three Corrective Services officers. Prisoners are under CCTV surveillance 24 hours a day
Brothers 4 Life gang founder and killer Bassam Hamzy (left) is one of the most dangerous inmates in Australia. Serial killer Ivan Milat (right) murdered seven backpackers in the Belanglo State Forest between 1989 and 1992 and has been in Supermax since it opened in 2001
Former NSW Corrective Services Commissioner Ron Woodham, who was instrumental in establishing the facility, once said: 'The scumbags in the Supermax are in the right place.'
A Corrective Services spokeswoman said Supermax was an 'integral part' of the state's penal system.
'It is designed to accommodate male inmates who have been found to be an extreme high risk to the good order, safety and security of other correctional centres,' she said.
It also housed inmates who were a 'serious threat of escape, detained under national security provisions, or are considered high public profile.'
'Regular multidisciplinary reviews of inmate behaviour within the centre are used to determine their progress through the three stages of the behaviour management program.
'Psychology, education, counselling and welfare support services are provided.'
Supermax presents a sterile environment which more resembles a secure mental hospital than a typical Australian jail. Since it opened in September 2001 there have been no escapes
Terrorist Khaled Cheikho (left), who is serving 27 years in jail for his crimes, has in the past been allowed to associate with ISIS sympathiser Bassam Hamzy. Former Brothers 4 Life gang member Farhad 'The Afghan' Qaumi (right) is not allowed anywhere near Hamzy in Supermax
Supermax was once home to a solid core of Anglo and Aboriginal prisoners but two of its three wings are now used solely to house inmates convicted of or charged with terrorism offences.
Among its first inmates were several who will die in jail: serial killer Ivan Milat, mass murderer Malcolm Baker and five-time killer Lindsey Rose.
The jail's most notorious inmate is still Milat, who despite being held behind such strict security has managed to keep himself in the news.
Miilat has cut off the little finger of his left hand, which he intended to mail to the High Court, and gone on a hunger strike when authorities took away his toasted sandwich maker and TV.
He has also swallowed razor blades, staples and other metal objects as he continues to deny murdering seven backpackers in the Belanglo State Forest between 1989 and 1992.
Milat is also a prolific correspondent with his letters fetching hundreds of dollars on a macabre collector's market.
In a missive to one news.com.au reporter three years ago Milat, who also calls Supermax HRM or HRMU, seemed to quite like the place.
'The food is fairly good,' he wrote. 'Any special diets, Muslims etc. are catered for. No guess work on that, once a person declares himself a Muslim then he always issued the religious friendly meals.'
A yard attached to a cell within the Supermax prison provides little room or privacy. Supermax has a small running track, basketball courts and exercise yards which are in high demand
Lindsey Rose (left), who killed five people between 1984 and 1994, served time in Supermax as did Malcolm Baker (right), who shot dead six people on the NSW Central Coast in 1992. Rose and Baker were early occupants of the prison but have since been moved to other jails
'I gather you think this place HRM/Supermax is something really special. I know that it is portrayed as the harshest place in the system.
'I know that for Commissioner Woodham's tenure he certainly made out that it was a cross between a Russian Gulag and Auschwitz.
'It's not a luxury place for sure, it's a prison, but compare the main prison, their conditions, with this place.'
Rose, who is serving five life sentences for a killing spree from 1984 to 1994, has been moved out of Supermax, as has Baker, who shot dead six people on the Central Coast in
