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Article: NSW: 'Substandard' staffer miscalculated dead inmate's release date
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- AAP General News (Australia)
- Article date:
- May 6, 2003
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NSW: 'Substandard' staffer miscalculated dead inmate's release date
By Jim Hanna, State Political Correspondent
SYDNEY, May 6 AAP - A 23-year-old Aboriginal man died in custody
after his release
date from a NSW prison was miscalculated by an inexperienced staffer
whose work was regarded
as not up to scratch, a report found today.
The inmate, whose name was not released for cultural reasons, died
18 days after he
should have been released, the report by former Corrective Services
Commission chairman
Vern Dalton, said.
"Expressed simply, the original error ... appears to have arisen
from work undertaken
by an inexperienced, relatively new officer ...