NSW women’s prison lacking hundreds of security cameras despite guard sexually assaulting detainees

Former prison guard Wayne Astill was jailed for a maximum 23 years for assaulting women at the Dillwynia Correctional Centre on Sydney’s outskirts. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

The New South Wales women’s prison where guard Wayne Gregory Astill sexually assaulted detainees still lacks hundreds of security cameras required to properly monitor the facility, a special commission of inquiry has heard.

Astill was jailed for a maximum of 23 years earlier this year for abusing his position and assaulting women at the Dillwynia correctional centre, on the outskirts of Sydney, for several years.