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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Peter Brewer

Prison's $600k body scanners sit idle as drugs and contraband hit three-year high

The sally port at the Alexander Maconochie Centre. Picture by Rohan Thomson

The seizure of contraband drugs, mobile phones and SIM cards inside Canberra's jail hit a three-year high last year, with the long-awaited full body scanners yet to be commissioned to help curb the problem.

Two Rapiscan X-ray scanners costing $600,000 were purchased and installed in June last year but are still not in use.

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