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Risdon Prison

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Australian Prisons
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Latitude
-42.8107
Longitude
147.341
Start Date
1960
End Date
2999

Description

A medium to maximum-security prison for men that can hold up to 280 inmates. During a four-month period across 1999 and 2000, five men died while imprisoned at Risdon. This sparked an investigative report by the ABC?Four Corners?program, which showed that there had bee 18 deaths in custody in the prison over the previous 12 years, and that successive governments had been aware of poor conditions at the prison but failed to intercede. A 2001 report by the Tasmanian Ombudsman also criticised the prison as over-crowded and?under-resourced. The facilities were expanded in 2006.

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