Saturday, April 29, 2006

Backlog inmates rotting on remand / The Age, 30 Apr 2006

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Jason Dowling
"LONG delays in preparing cases for court mean some prisoners spend up to 31/2 years on remand before coming before a judge, new figures reveal. The backlog has been blamed on staffing issues at the forensic centre that tests evidence and has been branded a 'radical problem' by civil libertarians."