'It is literally across the road from where I’m building a house'

Kate McIlwain
Updated April 12 2018 - 8:22pm, first published 5:00pm
Behind bars: This narrow road separates Ami Beck's (right) future home from the proposed prison land; she has joined Britt Bryant to fight the plan. Picture: Robert Peet.
Behind bars: This narrow road separates Ami Beck's (right) future home from the proposed prison land; she has joined Britt Bryant to fight the plan. Picture: Robert Peet.

When Dapto mum Ami Beck bought her dream block in a new housing estate at Kembla Grange, she never imagined it might someday have a view of prison walls and barbed wire.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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