Australia Yearbook - 2001

474 Year Book Australia 2001
the Indigenous rate of imprisonment was
15 times the non-Indigenous rate. The highest
ratios of Indigenous to non-Indigenous rates of
imprisonment were recorded in Western Australia
and New South Wales with Indigenous
imprisonment rates 20 and 14 times the
non-Indigenous rates respectively.
11.34 INDIGENOUS IMPRISONMENT—1 March 2000
NSW Vic. Qld SA WA Tas. NT ACT(a)
ACT in
NSW(b) Aust.
Number 1 156 129 1 173 176 977 43 418 8 n.a. 4 080
Rate(c) 1 815.4 928.5 1 815.5 1 347.2 2 946.7 460.4 1 273.5 n.p. n.a. 1 754.8
Ratio(d) 14.2 11.7 11.9 13.2 19.9 5.5 5.9 n.p. n.a. 14.9
(a) Refers to unsentenced prisoners in ACT prison custody. (b) Numbers of Indigenous persons among sentenced ACT prisoners in
NSW prison custody are unavailable. (c) Rate of Indigenous prisoners per 100,000 adult Indigenous population. (d) Ratio of
Indigenous to non-Indigenous rates of imprisonment.
Source: Corrective Services, Australia, March Quarter 2000 (4512.0).