NSW records 66 deaths in custody and police operations, with Indigenous deaths at historic high

66 people died in NSW custody and police operations in 2025, including 12 Indigenous Australians and 9 deaths by self-harm, representing significant loss to families and communities.

In 2025, New South Wales recorded 66 deaths in custody and police operations — the highest toll in recent memory — as state coroner Teresa O'Sullivan released her annual accounting of lives lost within the machinery of the justice system. The numbers reveal not a single failure but a convergence of pressures: overcrowded remand populations, persistent self-harm despite costly infrastructure reforms, and a record toll on Indigenous Australians whose overrepresentation in custody reflects wounds far older than any policy. Across every category of death, the coroner's message was the same — these

NSW records 66 deaths in custody and police operations, with Indigenous deaths at historic high

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