Australian Bureau of Statistics report on corrective services paints a mixed picture

18/09/2008

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has published data�on persons in custody and community-based corrections during�the June quarter of 2008.�The average daily number of full-time prisoners in Australia during that time was 26,677. The Northern Territory had the highest imprisonment rate (590 prisoners per 100,000 adult population), followed by Western Australia (230) and New South Wales (182).

The national average daily Indigenous imprisonment rate in the June quarter 2008 was 2,190 per 100,000 adult Indigenous population, an increase of two per cent from the previous quarter and a decrease of�one per cent�from the June quarter 2007. Learn more�>

18 September 2008