❓ A parliamentary question regarding prison overcrowding in Western Australia, seeking data on the prison population and characteristics of incoming offenders, including mental health, intellectual disability, fine defaults, homelessness, and sentence lengths. The answer refers to another question.
AnsweredQoN 1618Legislative Assembly
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I refer to the unprecedented increase in prison overcrowding under the current government, and I ask:
(1) What is the current adult prison population?
(2) What number (expressed both as a raw figure and percentage) of adult offenders entering prison between 1 November 2008 and the present time:
(a) have a diagnosed mental illness;
(b) are intellectually disabled;
(c) have, as a component of their sentence of imprisonment, a sentence of prison time for the failure to pay outstanding fines;
(d) are serving a term of imprisonment solely for the failure to pay outstanding fines;
(e) were recorded as having no fixed abode at the time of their sentencing; and
(f) were sentenced for a crime subject to a maximum penalty of two years or less?
(1) What is the current adult prison population?
(2) What number (expressed both as a raw figure and percentage) of adult offenders entering prison between 1 November 2008 and the present time:
(a) have a diagnosed mental illness;
(b) are intellectually disabled;
(c) have, as a component of their sentence of imprisonment, a sentence of prison time for the failure to pay outstanding fines;
(d) are serving a term of imprisonment solely for the failure to pay outstanding fines;
(e) were recorded as having no fixed abode at the time of their sentencing; and
(f) were sentenced for a crime subject to a maximum penalty of two years or less?
AnswerView source ↗
Answered
10 November 2009
Responded by
Minister for Corrective Services
Response time
47 days
(1-2f) Please refer to Legislative Council Question on Notice 1222.
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