Exploring ways to reduce Australia's reoffending rates
The recently released annual Justice Report on Australian Government Services reveals that while crime rates are decreasing, rates of imprisonment are increasing.
Expenditure on corrective services was almost $5 billion, an increase of about six per cent. The national imprisonment rate is sitting at 220.2 per 100,000 people, an increase of 28 per cent in the last 10 years.
Almost 55 per cent of released prisoners returned to prison, with the ACT having the highest rate of prison return, at 71 per cent.
