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Australian Crime: Facts and Figures 2002

Adult corrective services

Corrective services expenditure per prisoner/offender per day, 2000-2001
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Sources:

  • Australian Bureau of Statistics 2000-2001, Population by age and sex: Australian states and territories (various issues), cat. no. 3201.0.
  • Steering Committee for the Review of Commonwealth/State Service Provision 2002, Report on government services 2002, vol. 1, Productivity Commission, Canberra.

What this chart shows

  • Expenditure per prisoner per day was about $140 in 2000-2001, ranging from $108 in Queensland to $196 in the Northern Territory.
  • Expenditure per offender sentenced to community correction programs per day was only $7 in 2000-2001; this was 20 times less than for offenders sentenced to prison.
  • Overall, in 2000-2001 approximately $50,917 was spent on each prisoner and $2,372 on each offender sentenced to community correction programs.

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