Prison and community-sentence population tables give breakdowns by age, sex, ethnicity, and offence; and duration of remand, sentence, or order.
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provides analysis and trends about the offender population.
explains how an offender’s most serious offence is determined in the criminal conviction and sentencing tables, and gives the ANZSOC divisions for classifying offences.
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About these tables
The datasets come from administrative data on remand and sentenced prisoners in custody, and on community sentences and post-prison offender populations. This data is collected by the Department of Corrections.
We have applied random rounding to the figures in the tables to protect confidentiality.
Next release
Prison (sentence, remand, and post-prison), community-sentence, and completed community work offender population statistics: 2024 calendar year will be released on 24 April 2025.
