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[Link] 'He has been significantly punished': Prison escape lands man in solitary confinement for a year, court hears
Read: 30/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Jason Gregory Burdon has pleaded guilty to escaping from the maximum security prison's kitchen area in December last year, using items of clothing as a rope to climb out of a metal louvre window.
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[Link] Thick blue line: Victoria builds the country’s biggest police force
Read: 14/11/2021 www.theage.com.au
Victoria has become one of the most heavily policed states in Australia after a two decade-long law and order rivalry between the ALP and Coalition helped build the country’s largest law enforcement organisation.
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[Link] Three charged for allegedly trying to shoot drugs into SA prison by bow and arrow
Read: 8/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
Three people have been arrested for allegedly trying to use a bow and arrow to shoot drugs into the Port Augusta Prison. Late yesterday afternoon, police were called when three people were seen in a car acting suspiciously behind the jail.
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[Link] Australia may miss treaty deadline to establish torture protections for prisons, advocates warn
Read: 6/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Australia could miss an international deadline to introduce new safeguards against torture and abuse in jails, human rights advocates have warned.
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