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Ethan James

Amnesty call to shut Tas youth detention

Tasmania's child abuse in state institutions probe has focused on the Ashley Youth Detention Centre. (Ethan James/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

An international human rights organisation is calling for the immediate closure of a Tasmanian youth detention centre described as having a culture of brutality.

The Ashley Youth Detention Centre, which has operated for more than two decades, has this week been under the microscope of a commission of inquiry into child sexual abuse in state institutions.

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