Table 37 Prisoners, by jurisdiction - 30 June 2005

Table 37

Prisoners, by jurisdiction - 30 June 2005

	NSW (a)	Vic.	Qld.	SA	WA	Tas.	NT	ACT in ACT	ACT in NSW (a)	ACT Total	Aust. (b)
NUMBER
All prisoners	9 819	3 692	5 354	1 473	3 482	551	820	162	113	275	25 353
Males	9 126	3 435	4 994	1 379	3 214	523	794	154	108	262	23 619
Females	693	257	360	94	268	28	26	8	5	13	1 734
Indigenous	1 682	220	1 331	265	1 408	70	663	17	9	26	5 656
Non-Indigenous	7 853	3 472	3 969	1 054	2 074	476	157	136	104	240	19 191
Unknown	284	-	54	154	-	5	-	9	-	9	506
Sentenced	7 832	3 043	4 235	977	2 928	420	686	99	113	212	20 220
Unsentenced	1 987	649	1 119	496	554	131	134	63	-	63	5 133
PROPORTION (%)
All prisoners	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Males	92.9	93.0	93.3	93.6	92.3	94.9	96.8	95.1	95.6	95.3	93.2
Females	7.1	7.0	6.7	6.4	7.7	5.1	3.2	4.9	4.4	4.7	6.8
Indigenous	17.1	6.0	24.9	18.0	40.4	12.7	80.9	10.5	8.0	9.5	22.3
Non-Indigenous	80.0	94.0	74.1	71.6	59.6	86.4	19.1	84.0	92.0	87.3	75.7
Unknown	2.9	-	1.0	10.5	-	0.9	-	5.6	-	3.3	2.0
Sentenced	79.8	82.4	79.1	66.3	84.1	76.2	83.7	61.1	100.0	77.1	79.8
Unsentenced	20.2	17.6	20.9	33.7	15.9	23.8	16.3	38.9	-	22.9	20.2

(a) The majority of full-time prisoners sentenced in the ACT are held in NSW prisons.

(b) The ACT in NSW figures are a subset of the NSW figures, and are not separately counted in the Australian totals.