Petition success means West Dapto jail proposal to be debated in parliament

Kate McIlwain
Updated June 22 2018 - 2:26pm, first published 11:00am
Anti-jail campaigners Mary Marciano, Sonia Huseyin, Jess Mesa and Alan Mesa presented their petition to Shellharbour MP Anna Watson on Friday. Picture: Supplied.
Anti-jail campaigners Mary Marciano, Sonia Huseyin, Jess Mesa and Alan Mesa presented their petition to Shellharbour MP Anna Watson on Friday. Picture: Supplied.

Two and a half months after the NSW Government revealed it was eyeing a massive site at Kembla Grange for a potential future minimum-to-maximum security prison, angry residents have collected nearly 14,000 hardcopy signatures against the plan.

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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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