POLITICS
State mulls using COVID quarantine facility as prison
By Aaron Bunch
A state government could convert an unused COVID-19 quarantine facility into a prison to ease overcrowding in jails.
Western Australia’s 500-bed Bullsbrook quarantine facility was completed in 2022 and has mostly sat idle as the pandemic eased.
Corrective Services Minister Paul Papalia says the site, in Perth’s outer northeastern suburbs, could be “a good place for a prison”.
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