The governor of Junee jail has told an inquest that inmates will be moved to Junee from Goulburn this week, but extra staff will not follow any time soon.
Coroner Lee will hand down his findings next month.
The head of a southern New South Wales jail has told an inquest there are no plans for more staff, despite his centre taking another 100 inmates from Goulburn.
Junee Correctional Centre governor Troy Seychelles made the comment on Wednesday during an inquest into the death of former inmate Alexander Gavranic.
In March, the state government announced it would be closing four Victorian-era wings of the Goulburn jail by the end of September, with prisoners to be relocated to Junee and the Clarence Correctional Centre in northern NSW.
Mr Seychelles told the inquest the prison has the capacity to house around 1,200 inmates, but there were no plans for further resourcing.
In a statement to the ABC, a spokesperson for Corrective Services NSW said 14 correctional officers had started at Junee.
The three-day inquest overseen by deputy state coroner Derek Lee examined the referral pathways available to inmates at Junee Correctional Centre and the circumstances that led to the death of 40-year-old Mr Gavranic, who died in his cell by suicide in February 2023.
The court heard Mr Gavranic did not receive an initial mental health assessment during his 19 months in the jail, and at the time of his death two mental health nurses were responsible for 400 inmates awaiting mental health care.