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Huge shifts, low pay: Price of guarding Qld’s 10,000 inmates
Ballooning by 1053 prisoners since June last year, the state’s jails now house 9614 people in 7484 cells. Bunk beds have been rolled out to jails but inmates at some centres are sleeping on mattresses on floors in “doubled up” cells.At Brisbane Correctional Centre there was 939 inmates late last month – 379 above the built cell number and 170 above bed numbers – with prisoners sleeping on the ground on mattresses and jail units overcrowded.
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