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' ••.. ~ : t, • 1 i ~ . ~ 1 • • • + ".~ t 1 ~.+, . ,+ ~_. ~ .' • 4 ._1 • AUSTRALIAN PRISONERS 1990 Results of the NATIONAL PRISON CENSUS 30 JUNE 1990 132693 U.S. Department 01 Jusllce Nallanallnstllute 01 Justice This document has been reproduced exactly !,S received from the person or organization originating it. Points of vIew or opinions stat~d In this document are those 01 the authors and do not nec~ssa"ly represent the official position or policies of the National InstItute of Justice. Permission to reproduce this copyrighted material in mi­ crofiche only has been granted by Australian Tnstitute of ,..,..j rinolocm ' to the National Crlmlnai justice Aeference Service (NCJRS). Further reproduction outside of the NCJAS system requires permis­ sion of the copyright owner. JOHN WALKER assisted by Jennife~ Hallinan AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF CRIMINOLOGY First published 1991 by Australian Institute cd" C.irninology 'The Criminology Building 4 Marros Clame Street, Canberra ACT 2600 ©Australian Institute of Criminology 1991 'lhl1 book is copyrighL Apart from any fair dealings for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as pennitted under the Copyrigh/ Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written pennission. Inquiries should be made to the publisher. ISSN0813-2364 ISBN 0 642 16258 I FOREWORD This is the report of the ninth annual National Prison Census. It was conducted on the night of 30 June 1990 and included aU persons, convicted and uilconvicted, held in adult correctional institutions in all Australian jurisdictions. The tables contained in this report are largely compatible with those in the previous Census repOlis as, wherever possible, the same definitions, counting rules and tabulations have been used. The data collection form used in 1990 is identical to that us~d since 1987. The data collection Wll!; c<Hlrdinated by the National Correctional Statistics Committee, the body which is accountable to the Annual Conference of Correctional Minisiers for this and a number of other projects. Memb!.rship of this committee varies from time to time. In addition to the representatives of the Institute and the Australian Bureau of Statistics, state contributors this year were: Angela Goeta and Simon Eyland (New South Wales) Rob Eldridge, Darryl Coulthard and John Kempermnn (Victoria) BUt MUler (Queensland) Teresa Cunningham and Anne-Marie Langdon (Western Australia) Leigh Roeger (South Australia) BUt Harvey (Tasmania) Allan van Zyl and Tma S!lcea (Northern Territory) Louise Gell (Australian Capital Territory) May I express my sincere appreciation to these contributors for their c<Hlperation and willingness to negotiate complex issues. Thanks are also due to the numerous unnamed worken: in Australian corrections departments who collected and coUated the basic data, to Jennifer Hallinen who undertook much of the data editing, and to Dianne Dagger and Francois Debaeckel' who helped with the preparation of the report. John Walker. April 1991 CONTENTS FOREWORD .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... iii EXPLANATORY NOTES 1. Date and Coverage of the Census ..................................................................................................................................................... 1 2. Sources of Information ....................................................................................................................................................................... 1 3. Jurisdiction of Custody ....................................................................................................................................................................... 1 4. Age of Prisoner .................................................................................................................................................................................... 1 5. Aboriginality ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 1 6. Location of Last Known Address ...................................................................................................................................................... 3 7. Marital StatllS at Reception ............................................................................................................................................................... 3 8. Known Employment Status at Tune of Arrest/Charge for Current Episode ............................................................................ 3 9. Known Highest Level of Education .................................................................................................................................................. 3 10. Date of Most Recent Reception - The Current Episode .............................................................................................................. 3 11. Most Serious Offence/Charge ........................................................................................................................................................... 3 12. Federal Offence/Charge ..................................................................................................................................................................... 3 13. Level of Court ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 5 14. State/ferritory of Court of Sentence or Most Recent Remand in Custody .............................................................................. 5 15. Legal Status of Prisoner ...................................................................................................................................................................... 5 16. Drug/Alcohol Involvement in Offences/Charges .......................................................................................................................... ;; 17. Aggregate Sentence ............................................................................................................................................................................. 5 18. Type of Sentence (for Aggregate Sentence) .................................................................................................................................... 5 19. Method of Calculation of Earliest Date of Release and Actual Expected Sentence ................................................................ 6 20. Current Security Classification of Prisoner ..................................................................................................................................... 6 21. Comparisons with other Prison Statistics ........................................................................................................................................ 7 22. Flow Statistics, Monthly Averages and ICensus Summary Statistics ............................................................................................. 7 THE srnUCI'URE OF THE REPORr ............................................................................................................................................................ 10 ACCESS TO ADDmONAL TABULA.T10NS ................................................................................................................................................. 10 PARr A • SUMMARY TABLES BY SEX AND JURISDICTION Table 1 Number of Prisoners by Jurisdiction, Sex, Institution and Security Clas.~ification ................................................................... 13 2 Number of Prisoners by Jurisdiction, Sex and Age. (a) Numbers ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 17 (b) Percentages by Age ..................................................................................................................................................................... 18 (c)