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Lloyd Jones

Plans to build prison work camp at farming college

The NT government plans to turn an agricultural college into a prison work camp. (Patrick Caruana/AAP PHOTOS)

A crime-troubled territory in dire need of more beds in jails is negotiating with a university to turn part of an agricultural college into a prison farm work camp.

The Northern Territory government is in talks with Charles Darwin University to turn land at its rural college, 18km northwest of Katherine, into a prison farm for 100 low- to open-security inmates to be operating by the end of 2025. 

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