4517.0 - Prisoners in Australia, 2017 Quality Declaration 
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 08/12/2017   
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Sentenced prisoners

At 30 June 2017:

  • Nearly four in five (79%) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners sentenced in the previous 12 months had been imprisoned previously, compared to 55% of non-Indigenous prisoners. (Table 9)

Overall, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sentenced prisoners had shorter periods of incarceration than non-Indigenous sentenced prisoners:
  • The median aggregate sentence length for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners was 2.0 years, compared to 3.5 years for non-Indigenous prisoners. (Table 11)
  • The median expected time to serve for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners was 1.3 years, compared to 2.1 years for non-Indigenous prisoners. (Table 12)
  • The median aggregate sentence length for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sentenced prisoners was longest in South Australia (3.5 years) and shortest in Northern Territory (1.2 years). (Table 26)