Minister calls NSW prison statistics 'a tragedy'

By Kelsey Munro
Updated March 19 2017 - 2:43pm, first published 2:37pm

It's a record, but not one to be proud of: one in four prisoners in NSW jails are Indigenous, a statistic that has risen by 35 per cent since the Coalition government came to power in 2011.

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