Community-based corrections
This refers to the community-based management of court-ordered sanctions, post-prison administrative arrangements and fine conversions for offenders, which principally involve the provision of one or more of the following activities: supervision, programmes or community work.
Corrective services custody
Confinement in a place intended primarily for the purpose of confining prisoners, such as a prison, prison farm, Periodic Detention Centre or Community Custody Centre.
Federal sentenced prisoner
Persons charged and sentenced under a Commonwealth statute. For the purposes of this publication federal sentenced prisoners are those persons who are recognised by the Criminal Law Division of the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department as having been charged and sentenced under a Commonwealth statute. Federal sentenced prisoners are counted by the state or territory in which they were sentenced, not necessarily where they were held in custody.
Fine default only
A sentence type indicating that, at the time, the prisoner is serving a sentence for default of a fine and nothing else.
Full-time custody
A type of custody where a prisoner is required to be held in custody on a full-time basis.
Indigenous prisoner
A prisoner who identifies as either Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.
Legal status
An offender may be either sentenced or unsentenced depending on the warrant(s) or court order(s) which provide the legal basis for the detention of the offender in custody.
Open custody
A custodial regime for managing prisoners which does not require them to be confined by a secure perimeter physical barrier, irrespective of whether a physical barrier exists.
Other sentenced
A sentence type indicating that, at the time, a person is serving a sentence other than, or in addition to, a fine default sentence.
Periodic detention
A type of custody or order where a sentenced prisoner is required to be held in custody for two consecutive days in a one-week period.
Prisoner
A person held in custody. For the purposes of this collection, prisoners are those whose
confinement is the responsibility of a corrective services agency.
Reparation
Reparation refers to all offenders with a community service order or fine option that requires them to undertake unpaid work.
Restricted movement
This refers to offenders who are subject to a system of restricted movement including supervision and/or electronic monitoring.
Secure custody
A custodial regime for managing prisoners that requires them to be confined by a secure physical barrier.
Sentenced
A legal status indicating that a person has received a custodial order from a court in response to a conviction for a criminal offence.
Sentenced prisoner reception
Includes persons who enter corrective services custody from the community, having received a sentence of imprisonment as an outcome of a court proceeding. It also includes persons who are sentenced to custody while in custody on remand (i.e. change status from a remand to a sentenced prisoner). Sentenced prisoners in custody who receive a further sentence of imprisonment are not counted as sentenced receptions.
Two types of sentenced prisoner reception are distinguished:
- A fine default only reception is a sentenced reception where a person enters custody as a result of defaulting on the payment of a fine.
- An other sentenced reception is a sentenced reception (including changes of status from unsentenced to sentenced) for anything other than a fine default only reception.
Note that Victorian reception figures do not include prisoners who change status from unsentenced to sentenced in the period.
Supervision (compliance)
This includes community-based orders other than those categorised as restricted movement or reparation (e.g. parole, bail and sentenced probation).
Unsentenced
A legal status indicating that a person is confined to custody while awaiting the outcome of their trial. Some sentenced prisoners may also be 'remanded in custody', (i.e. are unsentenced) in relation to other offences pending a court hearing. In such cases, these prisoners are counted as sentenced.
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