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Kat Wong, Tom Wark and Alex Mitchell

YOU WONT BELIEVE: State locks up highest number of prisoners on record - You Need To See This

NSW's approach to incarceration is "dehumanising people", Greens MP Sue Higginson says. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

A teenager's death in a run-down prison has fuelled warnings governments cannot rely solely on jails to address crime.

Corrective Services and police are investigating after a 19-year-old man died at Long Bay Correctional Complex in Sydney on Sunday.

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