Almost 30 per cent of AMC inmates report heroin use while in Canberra's adult jail

By Daniel Burdon
Updated April 24 2018 - 10:50pm, first published March 9 2018 - 12:02am

Almost 30 per cent of inmates at the Alexander Maconochie Centre reported using heroin inside the prison in 2016, amid an ongoing culture of detainee drug-seeking and seeming easy access to the centre's methadone program.

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