Justice Sector Prison population forecast 2007 to 2015 [pdf, 312 KB]
...This is a 27% increase from 30 June 2007. The increase in the actual prison population over the preceding eight years was 41%. The forecast 2015 prison population is made up of 6,897 sentenced prisoners (a 7.6% increase from June 2007) and 3,488 remand prisoners (an 100.6% increase from June 2007). The growth in the remand population accounts for much of the expected growth in the prison population as a whole. Both the sentenced and remand populations are expected to grow more slowly...