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Lloyd Jones

UN inspectors again frozen out of Australian prisons

Questions have been raised by a decision to bar UN human rights inspectors from Territory prisons. ((A)manda Parkinson/AAP PHOTOS)

A tough-on-crime government has defended banning an international human rights watchdog from its prisons and watch houses, saying oversight bodies already monitor inmate welfare. 

The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention planned to inspect Northern Territory correctional institutions this week.

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