The education crisis failing inmates in NSW prisons

Geordie Little

By Geordie Little
Published January 30, 2019

Education participation appears to have fallen by 30 per cent in New South Wales prisons since the state laid off half of its prison teachers and outsourced their jobs.

Seventy-eight of the state’s 158 teachers were let go as part of the 2017 Better Prisons reforms, to make way ...

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