More than three decades on from the royal commission into aboriginal deaths in custody. More indigenous people have died in the state's prisons this year than in any other year on record. The New South Wales coroner Teresa O’Sullivan has taken the rare step of issuing an open letter to mark the grim milestone, pointing to soaring Aboriginal incarceration rates as a driver in the rising deaths. And a warning this story carries the names and faces of indigenous people who have died.
