Victoria's Barwon Prison, “like everything in the Andrews government is a dismal failure” which is currently leading the state in terms of failed drug tests, according to NSW One Nation Leader Mark Latham.
Victoria's Barwon Prison, “like everything in the Andrews government is a dismal failure” which is currently leading the state in terms of failed drug tests, according to NSW One Nation Leader Mark Latham. The thriving drug culture has resulted in a situation in which more than one in ten random drug tests taken in the prison have come back positive.
Mr Latham said given the lack of visitors there shouldn’t be anyone taking the drugs into the jails”. “I know in NSW’s the inmates are going crazy because they haven’t got their drugs and that is a good thing,” he told Sky News host Peta Credlin. Ms Credlin said the situation demonstrates the incompetence of Corrections Victoria which have been given the responsibility of running the failed hotel quarantine system.
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