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Australian crime : facts and figures 2003

Adult corrective services

Corrective services expenditure per offender per day, 2001-2002
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Sources

  • Australian Bureau of Statistics 2003, Population by age and sex : Australian states and territories 1997 to 2002, cat. no. 3201.0, ABS, Canberra.
  • Steering Committee for the Review of Commonwealth/State Service Provision 2003, Report on government services, volume 1 : education, justice, emergency management, Productivity Commission, Canberra. <http://www.pc.gov.au/gsp/reports/rogs/2003/>

What this chart shows

  • Expenditure per prisoner per day was about $155 in 2001-2002, ranging from $141 in Queensland to $206 in the Northern Territory.
  • Expenditure per offender sentenced to community correction programs per day was $8 in 2001-2002. The cost for offenders sentenced to prison was almost 20 times as high.
  • Overall, in 2001-2002 approximately $56,539 was spent on each prisoner and $3,066 on each offender sentenced to community corrections programs.

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