Prison expansion underway

Bendigo West MP Maree Edwards visited Middleton Prison in Castlemaine on Tuesday last week to turn the first sod on a $71m redevelopment and expansion.

The project will see a new unit built comprising 39 beds, new basketball court, kitchen, admin and recreation facilities and a new sally port. See the Mail for the full story.

Lisa Dennis
Editor of the Castlemaine Mail newspaper and senior journalist on our sister paper the Midland Express. Over the last 24 years Lisa been proudly reporting news in the Mount Alexander and Macedon Ranges communities.