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Politics
Aaron Bunch

HISTORICAL FACTS: State mulls using covid quarantine facility as prison - Caught on Camera

A WA quarantine centre set up during the COVID-19 pandemic could become a prison. (Richard Wainwright/AAP PHOTOS)

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.

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