Australian Woman Likens Govt Quarantine ‘Camp’ to ‘Prison’

Australian Woman Likens Govt Quarantine ‘Camp’ to ‘Prison’
Howard Springs Quarantine Facility in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia on Oct. 23, 2020. McTiernan/Getty Images
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An Australian woman has described her time in one of the country’s mandatory supervised quarantine facilities, often reported as “quarantine camps,” as like being “in prison,” in an interview with British news site UnHerd.

Hayley Hodgson, 26, said she was picked up at her residence in Darwin in the Northern Territory (NT), sometime in mid-November, and taken to a mandatory quarantine facility when she lied to police about getting a COVID-19 test after she was identified as a close contact of a confirmed case—her friend.

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