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Five facilities to replace Tasmania's 'house of horrors' Ashley youth detention facility

Five separate facilities with a preventative rather than punishment focus will replace Tasmania's notorious Ashley Youth Detention Centre, under a government "blueprint" to reform the state's youth justice system. 

In 2021, then-premier Peter Gutwein announced the detention centre, near Deloraine in Tasmania's north, would be closed within three years. 

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