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BOCSAR report shows increased rate of imprisonment for Indigenous offenders

Wed Oct 07 2009

The Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) has released New South Wales Criminal Courts Statistics 2008, which finds, among other things, that: the percentage of convicted Indigenous offenders given a prison sentence for break, enter and steal increased by 15 per cent (from 59.1 per cent to 67.8 per cent); and the rate at which people are being convicted of illicit drug offences in the Inner Sydney statistical subdivision rose by 21 per cent.

7 October 2009

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