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Introduction
This bulletin on Scottish prison statistics forms part
of The Scottish Executive Justice Department series of
bulletins on aspects of the criminal justice system.
For the first time, we have presented figures on a
financial year basis, going back to April 1996 when
computerised records became available. The figures on the
average daily population of prisoners and the number of
receptions are disaggregated by age, gender, sentence type,
sentence length and main crime. Some changes to the tables
have been introduced and some tables have been omitted.
Details on these changes are included in the
Annex.
Detailed tables can be found in the Appendix and
explanations of the terms and classifications used
throughout the bulletin are provided in the
Annex.
Chart 1 Average daily prison population, 20
th - 21
st Century
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