Article: Fed: Prison numbers up six per cent


AAP General News (Australia)
12-13-2007
Fed: Prison numbers up six per cent

Australia's prison population has increased by six per cent .. with an extra 14-hundred
offenders serving time.

The Bureau of Statistics says most new inmates are repeat offenders .. with 62 per
cent of those sentenced having previously spent time in jail.

The bureau estimates 27-thousand-200 adults are serving time .. an imprisonment rate
of 169 prisoners per 100 thousand adults.

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