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Former Adelaide Remand Centre general manager sentenced for stealing from prisoners

The Adelaide Remand Centre houses male high-security prisoners. (ABC News: Dean Faulkner)

A former Adelaide prison boss will spend at least another year behind bars for stealing money from the inmates he was managing, in offending that a District Court judge described as "striking at the heart" of the custodial system.

Former Adelaide Remand Centre general manager Brenton John Williams was today given a two-year-and-11-month jail sentence with a "merciful" non-parole period of one year and seven months for one count of theft.

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