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Kat Wong

Grim data highlights Indigenous imprisonment disparity

NSW BOCSAR executive director Jackie Fitzgerald says Aboriginal prison data is shocking. (Steven Markham/AAP PHOTOS)

The number of First Nations people in jail in NSW is higher than ever before, while those without convictions are soon expected to make up half of the prison population.

Though the number of people imprisoned has fallen since 2019, fresh data from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research has found the number of Indigenous Australians in custody has increased by 18.1 per cent.

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