The Age · National / Victoria

The ‘decanting’ game: Inside Victoria’s ‘cruel’ prisoner shuffle

· By Erin Pearson
Story summary

Hundreds of Victorians are being moved between police cells each night to battle the state’s prison overcrowding, with one unsentenced Indigenous man housed in various station cells for 26 days – almost double the legal limit.

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