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Canberra prisoner needed 54 stitches after being slashed with a shiv

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Updated May 24 2020 - 4:43pm, first published 12:30am
Some of the 700 contraband items seized during searches at the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC) during 2016-17. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong
Some of the 700 contraband items seized during searches at the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC) during 2016-17. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

No failings of security practices had been found to contribute to a December incident in Canberra's jail in which one prisoner used a shiv to slash the face and finger of another, inflicting injuries requiring 54 stitches.

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