4517.0 - Prisoners in Australia, 2015

ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 11/12/2015

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Key findings In this issue Overview + Prisoner characteristics, Australia + Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoner characteristics + State and Territory profiles About this Release + Federal offender characteristics History of changes Unsentenced prisoners at the highest level in a decade (Media Release)	Contains national information on prisoners who were in custody on 30 June each year. The statistics are derived from information collected by the ABS from corrective services agencies in each state and territory. Details are provided on the number of people in correctional institutions (including people on remand), imprisonment rates, most serious offence and sentence length. Information is also presented on prisoner characteristics (age, sex, Indigenous status) and on the type of prisoner (all prisoners, sentenced prisoners, and unsentenced prisoners (remandees) Document Selection These documents will be presented in a new window.