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Saturday, December 02

Prisoners have served their time, but still stuck inside for Christmas

Almost 100 prison parolees in Queensland are set to spend Christmas inside the state’s overstuffed jails – at a cost of nearly $30,000 a day – because of a “complete crisis” that is affecting more than just the criminals themselves.

Ipswich nurse's positive test sends 220 hospital staff into quarantine

More than 200 Queensland hospital staff remain in COVID-19 isolation as virus clusters linked to two quarantine-dodging teens continue to grow.

Fire crews at the Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre where numerous blazes have been lit by inmates over the past 24 hours (Photo: ABC).

Prison in flames as inmates vent their fury over virus lockdowns

Prisoners have lit at least three fires in 24 hours in a southeast Queensland jail locked down for five days due to a COVID-19 outbreak.