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Prisoner Characteristics

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

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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).

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Field Value
Title Prisoner Characteristics
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/36ac147e-e8eb-43fb-af59-c1cc8ef1dc0f
Remote Last Updated 23/01/2017
Contact Point
ABS (SA Data)
DataSA@sa.gov.au
Reference Period 16/04/2013
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    135.866666,
    -29.383333
  ],
  "type": "Point"
}
Data Portal South Australia Government

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on South Australia Government "Prisoner Characteristics". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/prisoner-characteristics