contact with the criminal justice system
Islander Australians
in Australian prisons.
imprisoned at 15 times the rate of other Australians.
women are 24.5 times more likely to be in prison.
the national female imprisonment rate increased
at a rate 21 times higher than the male rate.
between 2000 and 2010, an increase larger than
for any other cultural group.
likely to be in prison on remand and less likely
to be granted conditional release or post prison
community-based release than other women.
Australian Bureau of Statistics, Prisoners in Australia,
2012 cat 4517.0 (2013) 8.
When standardised by age, the national imprisonment
rate for non-Indigenous Australians is 129 prisoners per
100,000 adults in the general community, compared to
1,914 Indigenous prisoners per 100,000.Ibid
In 2011-12, while the overall prison population increased
one per cent, the number of female prisoners increased
by eight per cent. Ibid cited in Parliament of Australia,
`Report into Justice Reinvestment', above n 34, 4.
Steering Committee for the Review of Government
Service Provision, Overcoming Indigenous
Disadvantage: Key Indicators 2011 (2011) Productivity
Commission, 4.133; Ibid 32.
Parliament of Australia, `Report into Justice
Reinvestment', above n 34, 32.
lowest imprisonment rate of all the States and
Territories, and is well below the national average.
by nearly 40 per cent over the last 10 years, a rate
greater than the increase in the general population.
has also risen during the last decade.
prison population.
population.
compared to an increase of 20 per cent in
imprisonment rates for the non-Koori Victorian
population.
Rate per 100,000 adult population. Australian Bureau
of Statistics, Corrective Services cat 4512.0 September
Quarter 2012 (2012) 13.
The total number of prisoners in Victoria's prisons
has increased by 1,344 persons (38 per cent) in the
period. State of Victoria, Sentencing Advisory Council,
Victoria's Prison Population 2002 to 2012 (2013) 8.
The imprisonment rate increased from 94.2 to 111.7
prisoners per 100,000 persons (18.6 per cent) between
2002 and 2012. Ibid 8.
State of Victoria, Corrections Victoria, `Indigenous
Offenders and Prisoners Data Report to the July 2013
AJF' above n 1.
47
Seventy-four per cent, compared to 63 per cent of non-
Koori prisoners (male and female). Ibid.
In September 2012 the Victorian imprisonment rate was
1,557 per 100,000 adult Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander (male and female) adults compared to 113
per 100,000 per adult population Australian Bureau of
Statistics, `Corrective Services September 2012', above
n 42, 24,13.
State of Victoria, Sentencing Advisory Council,
Comparing Sentencing Outcomes for Koori and non-
Koori Adult Offenders in the Magistrates' Court of
Victoria (2013), 15.