Tasmania's prison overcrowding issue laid bare in new report

By Matt Maloney
Updated November 2 2017 - 7:53am, first published November 1 2017 - 7:00pm
Tasmania's prisons overcrowded, out-dated, and ‘unpleasant’
Tasmania's prisons overcrowded, out-dated, and ‘unpleasant’

Pressure is building on the government to release its plans for a new jail after the state’s Custodial Inspector issued a damning assessment of the current prison system.

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