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Report on the NSW Government's Implementation of the Recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
Appendix A
Ages, Sex and Aboriginality of Children in Juvenile Detention Centres (as at 31 December 1998)
| AGE | |
| 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 18+ | Total | Female | Male |
Non-Aboriginal | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 30 | 57 | 67 | 41 | 25 | 240 | 14 | 226 |
Aboriginal | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 24 | 26 | 41 | 13 | 8 | 122 | 10 | 112 |
TOTAL | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 21 | 54 | 83 | 108 | 54 | 33 | 362 | 24 | 338 |
Source: Department of Juvenile Justice Monthly Operations Report, December 1998
Aboriginal Children in Juvenile Detention Centres: By Most Serious Offence (as at December 1998)
OFFENCE | Number of Aboriginal detainees | Total number of detainees |
Homicide/manslaughter | 5 | 29 |
Armed robbery | 13 | 40 |
Sexual assault | 7 | 18 |
Grievous assault/malicious wounding | 18 | 46 |
Unarmed robbery | 5 | 26 |
Non-grievous assaults | 21 | 48 |
Drug trafficking | 0 | 0 |
Break enter and steal/intent to steal | 29 | 60 |
Stolen motor vehicle | 9 | 28 |
Other property | 9 | 26 |
Other drug offences | 0 | 6 |
Good order/justice, traffic, driving, rail offences | 6 | 35 |
Other offences | 0 | 0 |
Unknown offence code | 0 | 0 |
TOTAL | 122 | 362 |
Inmates of the NSW Department of Corrective Services: Custodial Programs (as at 30 June 1998)
Table 1: Type of Sentence by Aboriginality by Gender
Count
| ABORIGINALITY | |
GENDER OF INMATE | Aboriginal/TSI | Not Aboriginal | Unknown | TOTAL |
Male | Unconvicted | 151 | 816 | 15 | 982 |
| Life | 9 | 93 | | 102 |
| Forensic | 9 | 47 | 56 | |
| Minimum & Add | 475 | 3261 | 19 | 3755 |
| Fixed | 259 | 958 | 5 | 1222 |
| PDC | 91 | 1130 | 4 | 1225 |
| TOTAL | 994 | 6305 | 43 | 7342 |
Female | Unconvicted | 23 | 49 | 1 | 73 |
| Minimum & Add | 28 | 151 | | 179 |
| Fixed | 32 | 74 | | 106 |
| PDC | 13 | 97 | | 110 |
| TOTAL | 96 | 371 | 1 | 468 |
Note: Due to introduction of the new system for enforcement of fines under the Fines Act 1996, imprisonment is now used as the sanction of “last resort”. Therefore there were no new fine defaulter inmates in custody as at 30 June, 1998
Table 2: Most Serious Offence by Aboriginality by Gender (as at 30 June 1998)
Count
| | ABORIGINALITY | |
GENDER OF INMATE | Aboriginal/
TSI | Not Aboriginal | Unknown | TOTAL |
Male | Murder | 43 | 360 | 1 | 404 |
| Attempt murder | 4 | 60 | 2 | 66 |
| Conspiracy to murder | | 11 | | 11 |
| Manslaughter | 18 | 72 | | 90 |
| Major assault | 168 | 489 | 2 | 659 |
| Other assault | 95 | 306 | 4 | 405 |
| Rape | 1 | 5 | | 6 |
| Serious sexual assault | 70 | 430 | 4 | 504 |
| Incest/carnal knowledge | 10 | 100 | 3 | 113 |
| Indecent assault | 11 | 115 | | 126 |
| Buggery/bestial | 2 | 14 | | 16 |
| Robbery major assault | 101 | 622 | 8 | 731 |
| Other robbery | 64 | 241 | 1 | 306 |
| Fraud | 18 | 328 | 2 | 348 |
| Break enter and steal | 120 | 677 | 4 | 801 |
| Other steal | 75 | 614 | 5 | 694 |
| Driving/traffic | 54 | 399 | 1 | 454 |
| Offences against order | 49 | 365 | 1 | 415 |
| Drug offences | 17 | 793 | 5 | 815 |
| Other offences | 7 | 109 | | 116 |
| BOP/BOL | 67 | 195 | | 262 |
| TOTAL | 994 | 6305 | 43 | 7342 |
Female | Murder | 5 | 14 | | 19 |
| Attempt murder | 1 | 1 | | 2 |
| Conspiracy to murder | | 1 | | 1 |
| Manslaughter | 2 | 11 | 1 | 14 |
| Major assault | 10 | 22 | 2 | 32 |
| Other assault | 5 | 17 | | 22 |
| Serious sexual assault | | 2 | | 2 |
| Incest/carnal knowledge | | 1 | | 1 |
| Indecent assault | | 1 | | 1 |
| Robbery major assault | 6 | 21 | | 27 |
| Other robbery | 6 | 17 | | 23 |
| Fraud | 12 | 65 | | 77 |
| Break enter and steal | 10 | 32 | | 42 |
| Other steal | 21 | 49 | | 70 |
| Driving/traffic | 1 | 14 | | 15 |
Female | Offences against order | 6 | 31 | | 37 |
| Drug offences | 1 | 56 | | 57 |
| Other offences | | 3 | | 3 |
| BOP/BOL | 10 | 13 | | 23 |
| TOTAL | 96 | 371 | 1 | 468 |
Inmates of the NSW Department of Corrective Services: Non-Custodial Programs
Table 3: Type of Program by Indigenous Status by Gender (as at 30 June 1998)
GENDER | TYPE OF ORDER | ATSI | Non-ATSI | Total Orders |
Male | Supervision | 717 | 7406 | 8123 |
| Reparation | 265 | 3940 | 4205 |
| Fine substitution | 48 | 927 | 975 |
| Post prison orders | 236 | 2119 | 2355 |
| Other orders (including home detention) | 23 | 277 | 300 |
| TOTAL PERSONS | 1107 | 13075 | 14182 |
Female | Supervision | 200 | 1463 | 1663 |
| Reparation | 66 | 701 | 767 |
| Fine substitution | 13 | 246 | 259 |
| Post prison orders | 29 | 173 | 202 |
| Other orders (including home detention) | 4 | 55 | 59 |
| TOTAL PERSONS | 265 | 2330 | 2595 |
Note: Where an offender is serving orders of different types concurrently, that person is counted once in each order type. The count of total persons is regardless of the number of orders being served.
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