The complex was originally named after a former
commissioner,
John Morony, who rose up through the ranks from a prison officer to become Comptroller General of the New South Wales Department of Corrective Services. He retired in 1971 and took up a position on the New South Wales
Parole Board, which he had been instrumental in setting up. The complex is built over the former boys' home
Daruk Training School, also known as Daruk Boys' Home, Dharruk Boys Training School and Daruk Training Farm, was built in 1960 at Windsor. Until its closure in approximately 1985 the home housed hundreds of
wards of the state and
juvenile offenders of school age. During the
Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse, abuse was later found to have occurred at the institution. It served as an extension to
Mount Penang Training School for Boys, also known as Gosford Farm Home, which housed older boys. ==Description==