Razor wire surrounds the former Bergin Correctional Institution in Mansfield, Conn., Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2012. A year after the last inmate left the prison, the University of Connecticut is in talks with the state to lease the building as it seeks out more space for offices and laboratories. (AP Photo/Pat Eaton-Robb)
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Razor wire surrounds the former Bergin Correctional Institution in Mansfield, Conn., Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2012. A year after the last inmate left the prison, the University of Connecticut is in talks with the state to lease the building as it seeks out more space for offices and laboratories. (AP Photo/Pat Eaton-Robb)
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A screen in the warden's office at the Stiles Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice displays view from different security cameras at the prison Wednesday, March 13, 2013, in Beaumont, Texas. New technology is being installed at the prison unit to divert calls, texts, emails and internet log-in attempts from contraband phones. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
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Senior Warden Michael Roesler explains a cell phone blocking system, left, at the Stiles Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice system Wednesday, March 13, 2013, in Beaumont, Texas. The new technology is being installed at the prison to divert calls, texts, emails and internet log-in attempts from contraband phones. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
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Senior Warden Michael Roesler points out the different building numbers in a cell phone blocking system at the Stiles Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice system Wednesday, March 13, 2013, in Beaumont, Texas. The new technology is being installed in the prison to divert calls, texts, emails and internet log-in attempts from contraband phones. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
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Senior Warden Michael Roesler talks about different methods of security at the Stiles Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice system Wednesday, March 13, 2013, in Beaumont, Texas. New technology is being installed at the prison unit to divert calls, texts, emails and internet log-in attempts from contraband phones. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
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In this Jan. 24, 2013 photo, a part of the main patio sits empty inside the prison in Comayagua, Honduras. A year after one of the century's worst prison fires killed more than 350 people, the investigation remains open and prosecutors have filed no charges. The burned cells and electrical system are still being repaired. Even the inmate who was the hero of the fire, finding keys and freeing hundreds of men, was never pardoned as President Porfirio Lobo had promised. (AP Photo/Alberto Arce)
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In this Jan. 24, 2013, inmates who survived the prison fire a year ago stand inside the new collective cell built for inmates at the prison in Comayagua, Honduras. A year after one of the century's worst prison fires killed more than 350 people, the investigation remains open and prosecutors have filed no charges. The burned cells and electrical system are still being repaired. Even the inmate who was the hero of the fire, finding keys and freeing hundreds of men, was never pardoned as President Porfirio Lobo had promised. (AP Photo/Alberto Arce)
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In this Jan. 24, 2013, an inmate in an isolation cell, right, talks to attorney Miguel Angel Ortiz, president of Conaprev, the national mechanism to prevent torture, at the prison in Comayagua, Honduras. A year after one of the century's worst prison fires killed more than 350 people, the investigation remains open and prosecutors have filed no charges. The burned cells and electrical system are still being repaired. Even the inmate who was the hero of the fire, finding keys and freeing hundreds of men, was never pardoned as President Porfirio Lobo had promised. (AP Photo/Alberto Arce)
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In this Jan. 24, 2013, a white board that lists the number of prisoners who have not been convicted yet and have to be transported to court hangs on the wall at the prison in Comayagua, Honduras. A year after one of the century's worst prison fires killed more than 350 people, the investigation remains open and prosecutors have filed no charges. The burned cells and electrical system are still being repaired. Even the inmate who was the hero of the fire, finding keys and freeing hundreds of men, was never pardoned as President Porfirio Lobo had promised. (AP Photo/Alberto Arce)
Uncertainty over prison boss future
It is unclear how long the head of Tasmania's prison system will be on leave.
Barry Greenberry was recruited from Britain for the top job last year, after a damning independent prisons report which found inmates were being warehoused instead of rehabilitated.
Last month, the Justice Department confirmed Mr Greenberry was on leave after just seven months in the job but gave no explanation.
Prisons Minister Nick McKim still will not elaborate.
"Individual employment matters for individual employees are not matters for Ministers to get involved in, or to offer a commentary on, so you'll need to address those questions to the department," he said.
The Justice Department says it does not comment on the personal circumstances of employees.
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