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Miklos Bolza

Ambushed, stabbed: jail agency regret officer's torture

Corrective Services NSW has been fined after a guard suffered brutal injuries during a siege. (Paul Braven/AAP PHOTOS)

A government department has been convicted and fined for safety failures that resulted in a prison officer suffering brutal injuries during a six-hour ambush and siege.

Two correctional officers, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were attacked by a pair of prisoners at the Mid North Coast Correctional Centre near Kempsey on December 19, 2020.

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