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Man kept in jail illegally amid psychiatric facility bed shortage

Keane Bourke · ABC News (AU)

Published 9 Oct 2026, 8:13 am·1 h ago·1 min read

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A mentally impaired man is kept in jail illegally because of a chronic lack of beds in the state’s only psychiatric facility caring for prisoners.

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