ACT government set to use second full-time prison to tackle overcrowding crisis

By Christopher Knaus
Updated April 23 2018 - 10:41pm, first published April 8 2015 - 11:57pm

Surging inmate numbers have forced the government to prepare a second full-time prison to take overflow from the Alexander Maconochie Centre, where overcrowding is again reaching breaking point.

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