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Nick Wilson

Workers strike at troubled youth detention facility

Workers at the Ashley Youth Detention Centre at Deloraine, in Tasmania, joined a stop-work action. (Ethan James/AAP PHOTOS)

Children at a notorious youth detention facility have been restricted to their rooms as staff went on strike for safer working conditions following a violent escape.

Workers at the Ashley Youth Detention Centre at Deloraine, in Tasmania's north, joined a stop-work action for two hours on Tuesday afternoon. 

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