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Size and scope of Correctional Service sector provided by the Australian States and Territories (extracted from Report on Government Services 2016 Volume C: Justice - Produced by the Productivity Commission for the Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service)Size of Prison Custody Corrective Services operated 111 custodial facilities nationally at 30 June 2015. These comprised - * 85 government-operated prisons, * nine privately-operated prisons, * four transitional centres, * one periodic detention centre (ACT), and * twelve 24-hour court cell complexes (holding prisoners under the responsibility of corrective services in NSW) (table 8A.2). On average, 34 982 people per day (excluding periodic detainees) were held in Australian prisons during 2014-15 — an increase of 7.0 per cent over the average daily number in 2013-14 (table 8A.1). In addition, on average, 58 people per day were serving periodic detention orders in NSW and the ACT in 2014-15. Excluding periodic detainees, 21.5 per cent of prisoners were held in open prisons and 78.5 per cent were held in secure facilities in 2014-15 (27,461 inmates housed in secure facilities). A daily average of 6394 prisoners (18.3 per cent of the total national prisoner population, excluding periodic detainees) was held in privately operated facilities during the year (table 8A.1). Nationally, the daily average number of prisoners (excluding periodic detainees) in 2014-15 comprised 32 238 males (92.2 per cent) and 2744 females (7.8 per cent). The daily average number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners was 9644 — 27.6 per cent of prisoners nationally (table 8A.1). The national (crude) imprisonment rate for all prisoners was 190.3 per 100 000 people in the relevant adult population in 2014-15 (figure 8.2). This represents substantial growth in imprisonment rates over the 10 year period – an increase of 20.5 per cent from a rate of 157.9 in 2005-06 (table 8A.5) and an increase of 13.8 per cent over the five years since 2010-11 (figure 8.2). Figure 8.2 Imprisonment rates, total prisonersa The national imprisonment rate in 2014-15 was 355.7 per 100 000 males and 29.5 per 100 000 females in the relevant adult population (table 8A.4). The national (crude) imprisonment rate per 100 000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the relevant adult population was 2196.1 in 2014-15 compared with a corresponding rate of 139.4 for non-Indigenous prisoners (figure 8.3). Imprisonment rate comparisons should be made with care, especially for states and territories with relatively small Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations. This is because small changes in prisoner numbers can cause variations in rates that do not accurately represent either real trends over time or consistent differences from other jurisdictions.
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