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(1) What statistical figures are available from (a) JACS, (b) Treasury, (c) NSW Dept of Corrective Services and (d) other sources, that would provide details of ACT prisoners held in NSW prisons on a yearly basis for any of the years 1997-2001 and 2001-2006?

(2) Of those prisoners identified in (1), how many from the above or other sources were sentenced for crimes committed in the ACT each year for the period June 1997 to June 2006;

(3) Of those prisoners identified in (2), how many listed an address in (a) the ACT at the time of their arrest, (b) Queanbeyan at the time of their arrest, (c) the NSW region close to ACT (Yass, etc), excluding Queanbeyan, at the time of their arrest, (d) NSW, excluding (b) and (c), at the time of their arrest, (e) the Northern Territory or States other than NSW at the time of their arrest and (f) outside Australia at the time of their arrest.

(4) Of those prisoners identified in (2), (a) how many ACT prisoners were held in maximum security in NSW prisons and (b) how many of those prisoners listed an address in (i) the ACT at the time of their arrest, (ii) Queanbeyan at the time of their arrest, (iii) the NSW region close to ACT (Yass, etc), excluding Queanbeyan, at the time of their arrest and (iv) NSW, excluding (b) and (c), at the time of their arrest.

Mr Corbell: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:

(1) Statistical figures are available from the Australian Bureau of Statistics publications and the Report on Government Services. The data for these publications is sourced from the NSW Department of Corrective Services.

(2) All ACT prisoners have sentences imposed for crimes committed in the ACT.

(3) To answer this question would require the manual extraction of the requested information. As such, it is too resource intensive an exercise to justify answering within the allowed timeframe.

(4) Table 1 below provides the average number of prisoners held in maximum security in NSW prisons. As per question 3, it is too resource intensive an exercise to collate the required data on prisoners at the time of arrest to justify answering within the allowed timeframe.

Table 1. Average number of ACT prisoners in maximum security in NSW prisons for financial years 1997-2006

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