Qld jail death being investigated

The Boxing Day death of a prisoner in a Townsville jail is being investigated by Queensland police's Corrective Services Investigation Unit.

Signage at a police station

Police are investigating the death of a prisoner in a Townsville jail on Boxing Day. (AAP)

Queensland police are investigating the death of a prisoner in a Townsville jail on Boxing Day.

The Queensland Corrective Services department says the death in custody in understood to be non-suspicious but the matter has been referred to the police's Corrective Services Investigation Unit.

In a statement issued by the justice department, a corrective services spokesman says no further information can be provided.


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