SUMMARY OF FINDINGS

Data was collected about federal prisoners for the following jurisdictions: New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory. Data was collected about federal parolees for the following jurisdictions: New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory.

A federal prisoner is a person sentenced to a custodial order after pleading guilty or after being found guilty of a federal offence by a criminal court.

	NSW	QLD	SA	WA	Tas	NT	ACT
2013	546	122	29	114	3	17	n.p.
2012	572	173	37	n.a.	5	45	n.p.

n.p. - not published
n.a. - not available


A federal parolee is a person serving parole in the community under the authority of a Corrective Services agency, in relation to at least one federal offence.

	NSW	QLD	SA	WA	Tas	NT
2013	90	41	14	10	n.p.	n.p.
2012	101	43	13	n.a.	n.p.	n.p.

n.p. - not published
n.a. - not available


The federal prisoner data presented in this chapter have been compared against characteristics of the overall prisoner populations of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Northern Territory, presented in the previous chapters of Prisoners in Australia, 2013 (cat. no. 4517.0).

Data from the following jurisdictions have been excluded from the analysis and data cubes due to confidentiality reasons: federal prisoner data for Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory, and federal parolee data for Tasmania and the Northern Territory.