More Than 50 Victorian Inmates, Staff Contracted COVID-19 Since the Pandemic

A photograph taken on August 21, 2019 shows the Hopkins Correctional Centre, a prison located on the outskirts of the small regional Victoria town of Ararat, some 200 kilometres west of Melbourne. William WEST/ Getty Image

More than 50 inmates and corrections staff have contracted COVID-19 in Victoria since the start of the pandemic.

Victorian Attorney-General Jill Hennessy has told a parliamentary inquiry 23 adult prisoners and six staff have tested positive.