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Prisoners On Remand

 

Below are extracts from Jails bursting with unsentenced prisoners as costs also soar - The Age -  23 April 2018:

"Sentencing Advisory Council chairman Arie Freiberg said the increase in prisoners on remand had been massive and was driven in large part by the government’s response to community concerns about offences committed by people on bail or parole.

Emeritus Professor Freiberg said the Andrews government was responding to growing public support for tougher sentencing, following community horror over appalling crimes such as Adrian Bayley’s rape and murder of Jill Meagher while on parole.

There had been a reduction in the number of people being granted bail, and in offenders being granted suspended sentences and community corrections orders, he said.

“We’ve put in well over a billion dollars in prison infrastructure, 35 per cent of those inside are not convicted, and many of those may not go to jail at all, even if they are convicted,” Professor Freiberg said.

Tougher bail laws were introduced last year, ruling out bail unless under exceptional circumstances for a range of serious offences including car jacking, home invasion, armed robbery and culpable driving causing death."

Below is an extract from Queensland Drug and Specialist Courts Review – Report Summary and Recommendations - Nov 2016:

"There has also been a growing number of people held on remand, which has been a driver of prison population growth, with the number of unsentenced prisoners increasing by 47% between 2010–11 and 2014–15.  Over that same period, the number of sentenced prisoners has increased by 26%."

Prisons and Punishment  -  ABC News

 

 

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