Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Pink Palace, the n.

[its original colour scheme]

(Aus. prison/Und.) Risdon prison, Tasmania.

[Aus]M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 19: Tassie’s Risdon prison isn’t such a bad place [...] there are some pretty solid boys doing time here at the old Pink Palace, as we call it.
[Aus]M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 29: There is one very Aussie factor at the Pink Palace [...] There are only three wogs in the whole jail.