BOCSAR report shows increased rate of imprisonment for Indigenous offenders

07/10/2009

The Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) has released New South Wales Criminal Courts Statistics 2008, which finds, among other things, that: the percentage of convicted Indigenous offenders given a prison sentence for break, enter and steal increased by 15 per cent (from 59.1 per cent to 67.8 per cent); and the rate at which people are being convicted of illicit drug offences in the Inner Sydney statistical subdivision rose by 21 per cent.

**7 October 2009 **