Exclusive: Study says reduced incarceration of non-violent offenders can deliver savings to taxpayers and get more people into work
to tackle Australia’s rising incarceration rates, particularly among women and Indigenous women.Bagaric cites Australian Bureau of Statistics figures that show Australia’s incarceration rate now sits at 214 prisoners per 100,000 adult population, a near-record high.
In 2020-21, Australia’s spent about $4bn on prisons, at a cost to a taxpayer of each prisoner a year of $375 a day or $136,875 a year, the paper said. “In revenue terms, this would result in an annual taxpayers saving of approximately $1.25bn,” the report said.
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