Dapto jail: 'You could wake up and the minister could start the bulldozers rolling'

Kate McIlwain
Updated May 21 2018 - 7:42pm, first published May 8 2018 - 5:30pm
Dapto jail: 'You could wake up and the minister could start the bulldozers rolling'
Dapto jail: 'You could wake up and the minister could start the bulldozers rolling'

The tiny square of land which forms the old West Dapto Catholic Cemetery is the only portion of the 230 hectare site earmarked for a jail at Kembla Grange where prisons are permissible. 

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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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