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Article: NSW: Inmate died in custody 18 days after proper release date
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- AAP General News (Australia)
- Article date:
- April 11, 2003
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NSW: Inmate died in custody 18 days after proper release date
SYDNEY, April 11 AAP - A 23-year-old Aboriginal man died in custody
nearly three weeks
after he should have been released, NSW Justice Minister John Hatzistergos
said today.
Mr Hatzistergos described the death at the John Morony Correctional
Centre at Windsor
as an appalling tragedy.
The man, whose name was not released for Aboriginal cultural reasons,
died on January
22 - 18 days after he should have been released, he said.
A miscalculation had the man's release date as April 10, 2003,
and had not taken into
account three months already served.
The cause of the man's death has not been ...